Ferenc biography minister

It was a typically robust response from the youthful year-old who only five months ago successfully steered his Socialist-led coalition to become the first Hungarian government to be re-elected for a second term since democratic elections were restored in

Now the controversial Mr Gyurcsany has also become the first of Hungary's post-communist prime ministers to preside over a political crisis involving violence in the streets.

The riots and the much larger peaceful demonstrations were triggered by Mr Gyurcsany's own remarks - leaked at the weekend - in which he admitted that the government had lied about the state of public finances in order to win the elections in Ap