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WORLD & NATION 9
Monday, April 9,1990
Hungarians vote in final round
of elections; conservatives lead
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Millions voted
Sunday in a final round of national elections to
pick Hungary’s first freely chosen government in
43 years, and the main conservative party took a
commanding early lead. Its major rival conceded
defeat.
State television, reporting preliminary results
four hours after polling stations closed, showed
the conservative Hungarian Democratic Forum
winning 60 of 171 contested seats and leading in
another 64.
Their closest rivals, the liberal Alliance of Free
Democrats, were far back, holding 20 seats and
ahead in 27.
Official results were not expected before
Tuesday. But the clear conservative advantage
forced an early concession from Miklos Haraszti,
a leading Free Democrat.
“It is clear that the HDF will gain the most
seats,” he said.
Elections two weeks ago left 261 of the Na
tional Assembly’s 394 seats undecided. That bal
loting gave no party an outright majority but re
legated the former Communists to fourth place.
No party was considered strong enough to win
a majority in Sunday’s polling and a coalition
government was expectea. More than 7.5 million
people were eligible to vote.
“I
It’s clear that people have
become tired. It’s time to end the
election process.”
— Matyas Szueros,
Interim president
Both front-running parties, the Hungarian
Democratic Forum and the Alliance of Free
Democrats, have refused to consider forming a
government with the former Communists, now
running as the Socialist Party.
Most polls closed at 6 p.m. after 12 hours of
voting. State television began its 24-hour election
program two hours later with preliminary esti
mates of a more than 40 percent turnout nation
wide, indicating that more than 3.25 million peo
ple voted.
A poll made public shortly after the end of vot
ing predicted a clear Democratic Forum victory.
The poll of 2,000 people conducted by the
Hungarian Public Opinion Survey Institute indi
cated that Democratic Forum would hold 39 per
cent of the seats in the legislature, with the Free
Democrats capturing 29 percent.
The Smallholders would end up with 13 per
cent of the seats and the Socialists with 9 percent,
according to the poll, which was made public on
the television election program. No details of
how the survey was conducted were revealed.
Many Hungarians seemed weary after the sec
ond round of balloting in two weeks.
“It’s clear that people have become tired,” In
terim President Matyas Szueros told reporters
before casting his ballot. “It’s time to end the
election process.”
The voting was generally uneventful, with few
irregularities reported.
In Debrecen, about 90 miles west of the capital
of Budapest, several polling stations did not open
on time because supervisory officials were late,
state radio reported.
One station first opened at 9 a.m., three hours
past schedule. The radio said the delay was
caused by the chief supervisor who called in to
say he would be late because “he was tired.”
Voters at a polling station in Budapest shook
out umbrellas after walking in from the rain, and
many clutched pussy willows symbolic in Hun
gary of Easter.
Lithuanians expect snags
in market economy switch
Expert claims
U.S. population
causes problems
PITTSBURGH (AP) — One
American does 20 to 100 times
more damage to the planet than
one person in the Third World,
and one rich American causes
1,000 times more destruction, a
population expert said Thursday.
“The most serious population
problem in the world is right here
in the United States,” said Paul
Ehrlich, Stanford University pro
fessor of population studies.
“The most common misper
ception of the population prob
lem is that it’s a problem of poor
Indians who don’t know how to
use condoms,” he said. “Actually,
the problem in the world is that
there are too many rich people.”
Ehrlich spoke to about 1,200
students, teachers, garden-club
members and corporate exec
utives at a conference on solving
global environmental problems.
Ehrlich railed against highly
developed nations like the United
States that he claims consume too
much of the world’s resources.
EDITOR’S NOTE — The material
for this report was gathered before
the Soviet government expelled Ann
Imse and other Western correspon
dents from Lithuania on April 1.
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Many
Lithuanians say their declaration of
independence was like leaping for a
lifeboat to escape a sinking ship.
“Alone, we know it will be better
in five years; with them, we don’t,”
banker Gintautas Preidis said of the
Lithuanian Parliament’s decision
March 1 1 to cut loose from the So
viet Union and its economic and eth
nic problems.
Lithuanians expect initial difficul
ties in switching from central plan
ning and subsidies to a market econ
omy in which prices are set by
competition. The republic also may
lose access to cheap Soviet resources.
“I visited a collective farm where
they had 30 people as bookkeepers,”
said Joseph Kazickas, a Lithuanian
who emigrated to the United States
at the end of World War II and be
came a businessman.
“ A
r^lone, we know it will
be better in five years; with
them, we don’t,”
— Gintautas Preidis,
banker
He is back in Lithuania, arranging
for experts to help reform the econ
omy and working with Premier Kazi-
mieras Prunskiene to set up a system
that would entice Western invest
ment.
The Kremlin, which has used
troops to take over Lithuania’s pros
ecutor’s office and has waged a war
of nerves to keep the republic in its
fold, is standing in the way of some
reform and could stifle other moves
to revamp the republic’s economy.
Prunskiene has said Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov and his Cab
inet refused to transfer most author
ity from Moscow to Vilnius.
For example, Prunskiene sug
gested that the majority of the 200-
plus factories now run by ministries
in Moscow be turned over to Lithua
nian control. Ryzhkov and his min
isters are willing to hand over only a
few dozen.
Lithuanian officials aim for their
nation of 3.8 million people, about
the size and population of Ireland,
to develop a thriving economy based
on selling meat, milk and consumer
goods to the Soviet Union and ship
ping its imports and exports.
But Moscow built many of Lithua
nia’s factories according to no eco
nomic logic, far from raw materials
and customers. They manufacture
goods so outmoded that only des
perate Soviet consumers would buy
them.
Relations with the Soviet Union
are critical for Lithuania, which gets
all its oil and gas from Siberia at low
rates. Moscow needs Lithuania,
whose factories produce parts for
Soviet plants.
Twenty-nine-year-old political ban lifted by Nepal’s government
King announces new multiparty system
while opposition leaders claim victory
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Ling Birendra
on Sunday announced the establishment of a
multiparty system and the lifting of a 29-year-old
ban on political parties following the bloodiest
day in Nepal’s modern history.
The stunning announcement was carried on
state-run television and preceeded by several
hours of talks between opposition leaders and
the Harvard University-educated monarch.
“We talked with the king for an hour at the
royal palace and the talks were very, very cor
dial,” said Kirshna Prasad Bhattrai, a leader of
the Nepali Congress Party, which had been
banned for the last 29 years.
The decision came after talks between the new
Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand, a rel
ative moderate, and opposition leaders on Satur
day and Sunday. Chand was given his job last
week after hard-line Prime Minister Marich Man
Shrestha resigned.
The kingdom’s only experiment with Western-
style democracy lasted less than two years and
was halted in 1961 when Birendra’s father, King
Mahendra, dismissed the Nepali Congress gov
ernment, accusing it of corruption and ineffi
ciency.
Since then, political parties have been banned
and the king has ruled in conjunction with a leg
islature called the Rashtriya Panchayat, or Na
tional Assembly.
Violence flared Friday during a general strike
called by banned political groups, the Nepali
Congress and a coalition of leftist parties, who
launched the campaign for multiparty democ
racy seven weeks ago.
There have been demonstrations for greater
democracy in the past, but the support has come
mainly from university students and limited cir
cles of activists.
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