"We try the impossible to achieve the possible!" Last night, the Lajos Batthyányi Foundation and the Rubicon Institute organized a discussion entitled - 35 years ago the Lakitelek Meeting - during which Sándor Lezsák, a member of parliament, was asked by Örs Kovács, a scientific associate of the Rubicon Institute.
The Lakitelki Meeting was commemorated at the event held in the Lónyay-Hatvany villa in Budapest. Exactly on the day - in 1987, thirty-five years ago - in the garden of the house of the poet and teacher Sándor Lezsák, the first army review of the popular-national trend was held with the participation of 181 intellectuals.
On the same day, in a tent set up in the garden, the later system-changing party, the Hungarian Democratic Forum, was founded, which then became the winner of the first free elections. With this, Lakitelek became one of the most important stations in the history of system change, and Sándor Lezsák was an unavoidable contemporary of system change, the organizer of the intellectual opposition representing popular-national ideals.
The abolition of the dictatorship, the offer of cooperation and the creation of a new movement, later a party, all started here, in Lakitelek. Sándor Lezsák, teacher, writer, poet, vice-president of the National Assembly, president of the National Forum, member of parliament, host of the housing meeting, recounted his personal experiences at the public event on Tuesday evening and revived the difficulties of organizing the meeting. And, of course, he talked about his current relationship with other leading personalities of the regime change era. As well as what has been achieved from the housing declaration in the past 35 years.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Picture: Róbert Hegedűs
