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- ┼╞ WORLD, Page 59World NotesHUNGARYA Goulash Victory
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- Hungarians waited 45 years for the free elections they
- finally enjoyed last week. Then they had to wait another 48
- hours for the results to be funneled through an archaic
- telephone network and a malfunctioning computer system. When
- the bulk of the 7.5 million ballots were finally counted, the
- Hungarian Socialist Party, formerly the Communists, had won
- less than 11% of the vote, only enough to give it a peripheral
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- The allocation of 386 parliamentary seats will be determined
- after runoff elections scheduled for April 8. But the
- first-round results made clear the country's overwhelming
- preference for two center-right parties, the Hungarian
- Democratic Forum (25% of the vote) and the Alliance of Free
- Democrats (21%). Since neither of the front runners is likely
- to win an outright majority in the next round, talks to stitch
- together a governing coalition with the Independent
- Smallholders' Party and other parties quickly got under way.
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