sourceBudapest, Sept 23: Political tensions in Hungary remained high on Saturday, but there was no overnight violence, reflecting cooling passions over leaked comments by Prime Minister admitting he lied to the country.
By today noon, about 500 people had regrouped in the square in front of Parliament - the venue of demonstrations gathering thousands of people since the leak was revealed last week. Some stood around a soup kitchen set up by farmers preparing potato goulash in huge steaming cauldrons.
About 7,000 people had gathered last night, 3,000 less then on previous evenings, with the shrinking numbers also suggesting ebbing anger.
Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's comments have fed traditional suspicions within the Centre-Right camp that it is no better than its predecessor, the Communists who ruled Hungary for more than four decades.
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