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Government marks 30th anniversary of first free parliament after communism
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President János Áder gave a speech in Parliament on Saturday, at the celebratory session marking the 30th anniversary of Hungary’s first free parliament after the fall of the communist regime.
“What we created over the past thirty years has withstood the test of time … Hungary is an independent, democratic state under the rule of law, a free country,” Áder said.
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In his speech, Áder proposed to “use as a resource” the experience of the past thirty years to resolve the problems posed by the novel coronavirus epidemic “so we can soon enjoy freedom again”.
In the past weeks, the epidemic has shone a light not only on “our frailty” but also on the strength of national cohesion, he said.
The nation has to stand together to have the country return to normalcy again, Ader said.
The first session of the first freely elected parliament on May 2, 1990, “marked the end of an era”, Áder said.
He noted that the current parliament has only seven members who “took part in that historic moment”, while its youngest member was not yet born.
The era that ended with that session was called a people’s democracy but was in fact a dictatorship, Áder said.