An independent MP urged Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on Tuesday to press for new legislation on the handling of pre-1990 communist era files.
Jozsef Gulyas called on Bajnai to make a commitment “beyond verbal agreement” to speeding up the long-stalled process of making some top-secret files on the country’s communist past public.
A committee of historians in charge of access to information about the pre-1990 communist secret services had fought for years to explore the documents of the one-time communist secret service. The committee found, among other documents, 18 magnetic tapes in poor condition, which contain data on the period, including lists of informers and data on whom they spied.
In May this year, the historian heading the committee won a case in a Strasbourg court against the Hungarian state for failure of granting public access to communist-era data.
