To: Mr. Ferenc Gyurcsány
Prime
Minister of
Your
Excellency,
This
September, in your reply to the question of the President of the Hungarian
Republic you claimed that there were no incompatibilities whatsoever and no legal
or political circumstances, which would have prevented you from taking up the
responsibility of the Prime Minister of Hungary and which would have
jeopardized the majority system in the Hungarian Parliament and the efficient
and constitutional activity of the government either. The written proposal of the
President, addressed to the Parliament and
recommending your nomination as P.M., clearly emphasized this point after the last elections.
In our
opinion both the public judgement of your person and the political situation
have dramatically changed since then. Your confidential speech which has leaked
out recently, has made obvious for the nation that you and your cabinet kept deliberately
withholding the truth about the real situation of our country right throughout
the previous governmental period and thus you made it impossible for people to vote
with responsibility at the parliamentary elections of 2006.
Being
worried about the future of our country, we fully understand the burden, the
consequences and dangers of the disclosure of this governmental practice that
endangers the democratic order of our republic. We are convinced that your position
as Prime Minister cannot be sustained any more since it has a devastating
effect on the morality of democracy and also on the constitutional liberty of
decision making of all Hungarian citizens. Unless you resign soon, peace and development
would be endangered and social equilibrium upset in
Remember
that there may be extraordinary situations when the best thing a politician can
do for his country is resigning of his post. That is what we suggest you to do
now.
Ferenc Mádl, Ákos Bod Péter,
Ádám Farkas, Tamás Freund, György Granasztói, Miklós Király Gyula Kodolányi,
János Martonyi, Sándor Sára, Sándor
Szokolay, János Zlinszky[1]
[1] Ferenc Mádl, President of the
Ákos Bod Péter, minister of industry and commerce, 1990-91
Ádám Farkas, economist
Tamás Freund, neurobiologist
György Granasztói,
historian
Miklós Király, lawyer
Gyula Kodolányi, writer
János Martonyi, lawyer,
minister for foreign affairs, 1998-2002
Sándor Sára, regisseur
Sándor Szokolay, composer
János Zlinszky, member of
the constitutional court, 1989-98