Hungary to open Communist-era archives
Hungary’s Prime minister-elect Peter Magyar on Tuesday said his government would make Communist-era archives public in October. Magyar’s Tisza party in elections on April 12 beat nationalist Viktor Orban’s longtime ruling party Fidesz, promising a “system change.”
The 45-year-old conservative, who is to be sworn in as prime minister on May 9, has vowed wide-ranging reforms, including opening Communist-era files.
Magyar said he held talks with Gergo Bendeguz Cseh, director general of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, on “fully lifting the classification and making public the agent files and the notorious magnetic tape recordings.”
Magyar said his government would also set up an “investigative committee to identify the beneficiaries of the plundering carried out during the privatizations” between 1988 and 2000.
Last week, Magyar said his party’s deputies would not work in the office building close to the parliament, used since 1990 by MPs, because it belonged once to the communist secret police.
