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Hungary Intermediate Institutions
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Figure 10. Structure of the Country Committee Apparatus, 1986
Source: Based on information from Hans-Georg Heinrich, Hungary:
Politics, Economics, and Society, Boulder, Colorado, 1986, 55.
Intermediate party institutions embraced organs on the
county
and district levels. The structure of the party on these
levels
resembled that on the national level. In principle, at
each level
the most authoritative body was the conference, which was
attended by delegates from lower levels. These conferences
took
place every two years to review reports, discuss the
activities
of the government and party bodies under their
jurisdiction, and
elect a party committee. The conference also elected
delegates to
the conference at the next highest level. District
conferences
thus selected delegates to the county party conference,
and the
county party conference elected delegates to the party
congress.
If a Basic Organization had more than 1,500 members, it
elected
delegates directly to the county party conference. In
fact, the
party leadership at each level nominated the delegates,
and the
party conferences merely confirmed these nominations.
Between meetings of the conferences, the party
committee
constituted the highest authority on the district and
county
levels. The committees on the county level met every three
months, and those on the district level met every two
months.
These committees chose a bureau and a secretariat to
manage the
affairs of their jurisdictions between committee meetings.
Party
bureaus consisted of the first secretary, the head of the
county
or district government, and specialists in industry,
economics,
agriculture, and youth and ideology. The first secretary
at each
level was the most powerful official in the jurisdiction.
The secretariat of the county and district party
bureaus
coordinated and supervised the implementation of party
policies
in the party bureaucracy and the government
(see
fig. 10).
The
secretaries and the bureaus answered to their respective
conferences and committees, but they also received
directions
from the organs above them, particularly the Secretariat
of the
Central Committee. However, the primary duty of the
districtlevel apparatus was to supervise the Basic Organizations.
This
apparatus also approved the admission and expulsion of
members by
the Basic Organizations.
Data as of September 1989
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