István Csurka

István Csurka [' iʃtva ː n t͡ʃurkɒ ] ( born March 27, 1934 in Budapest, † 4 February 2012) was a Hungarian journalist, writer and politician from the nationalist and right-wing conservative party spectrum.

Work

Csurka participated in the founding of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), for which he was elected in the first free election after the fall of the communist government in the Hungarian Parliament and its board also belonged. In 1993 he left the MDF and was from October 1994 Chairman of the Hungarian small party MIEP (Hungarian Truth and Life Party ), which defined themselves as radical national-conservative grouping. Csurka, who was interned after the Hungarian national uprising in 1956 a few months, should have worked as spies of the secret police.

Csurka himself fell regularly on anti-Semitism through verbal and saw himself as a representative of that around 3 million Hungarians, who were separated by the Peace Treaty of Trianon (1920 ) by the Hungarian State Association.

In recent years, speculation has been expressed his sights on a cooperation with the center-right party " Alliance of Young Democrats " ( Fidesz ) to. Its chairman Viktor Orbán has denied this several times and publicly rejected and accepted as Prime Minister (until 2002) no parliamentary support.