Bust of former PM Antall inaugurated on 25th death anniversary

Antall statue
Budapest, 2018. december 12. Boross Péter volt miniszterelnök, a Nemzeti Emlékhely és Kegyeleti Bizottság elnöke beszédet mond Antall József mellszobrának felavatásán a Fiumei úti sírkertben, a politikus síremléke közelében 2018. december 12-én. Domonkos Béla alkotását a néhai miniszterelnök halálának 25. évfordulója alkalmából avatták fel. MTI/Bruzák Noémi

A bust of former Prime Minister József Antall was inaugurated near his shrine at the Fiumei Road cemetery in Budapest on Wednesday, commemorating the 25th anniversary of his death.

Péter Boross, who succeeded Antall in his post, noted that Hungary’s first post-communist prime minister had been Hungary’s first freely elected leader after the change of regime and had “steered the country out of a distorted period with a firm hand”.

Antall left a mark on Hungarian history and it is “therefore our duty to regularly commemorate him”, he added.

“It is our moral duty to highlight the changes he brought about in public thinking,” he added.

Antall statue
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The bust by sculptor Bela Domonkos was commissioned by the National Heritage Institute and Antall’s shrine was revamped for the anniversary.

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