Hungary’s liberal opposition Free Democrats (SZDSZ) have asked Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai to state when the government intends to complete a legislation on making classified files on Hungary’s communist past public, liberal MP Jozsef Gulyas told MTI on Saturday.
Gulyas, who submitted the question in a letter to Bajnai, said there was a fuzziness in the way documents from the time before the democratic transition were handled in Hungary. A committee reported to the government on the management of classified material last September, but nothing has changed since, Gulyas said.
Earlier this week, head of the reporting committee, historian Janos Kenedi won a case in a Strasbourg court against the Hungarian state for failure of granting public access to the documents.
In his letter, Gulyas urged Bajnai to support the SZDSZ initiative to put the draft bill to the government before the summer recess.
