Civil candidate becomes Hungary’s new eco-political President

On
June 7 the words ‘Another Politics is Possible” took on a new meaning
in Hungary when Dr László Sólyom, Hungary’s first ‘civil candidate’ was
elected President of the Hungarian Republic in an unexpected success of
grassroots politics. His nomination, formalized in a letter signed by
110 well known activists and intellectuals from across the political
spectrum, was originally intended as symbolic.