The party congress accordingly swung away from Mr Kiss and heavily backed Mr Gyurcsany instead.
Mr Szilvassy is a close ally of Ferenc Gyurcsany, the former Socialist prime minister.
Mr Gyurcsany's arrival as prime minister will, it seems, ensure that the coalition government survives for a while longer.
Yet there may be less to Mr Gyurcsany's departure than meets the eye.
Fidesz's initial response was to defend the Garda's right of free association, and accuse Mr Gyurcsany of whipping up hysteria.
The financial markets remain nervous and they would be more so if Mr Gyurcsany were to replace Tibor Draskovics as finance minister.
An opposition leader and former prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, says while in office he rejected a deal offered by the Azeris.
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Mr Gyurcsany's austerity measures have done wonders for the deficit but they have brought the national economy to a juddering halt.
It is no surprise that Mr Gyurcsany's approval rating is barely 18%.
If that is the case, then Mr Gyurcsany need not rush either perhaps.
Mr Gyurcsany, a former communist youth leader turned multi-millionaire, has a year to turn round the economy and with it his party's poll ratings.
Ferenc Gyurcsany - the prime minister of Hungary, one of the worst affected EU countries - called for more Europe-wide support for individual nations.
Assuming he is still in post, Mr Gyurcsany might have to seek re-election in 2010 on the basis of having brought stability rather than high times.
The prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, was caught on tape telling party colleagues that his government, re-elected in June this year, had lied, screwed up and done nothing.
But, says Oakely, Gyurcsany's confession bodes ill for his career.
The public anger reveals that until now, Hungary's voters had presumably believed that Gyurcsany's government had actually been telling the truth, an assumption many might laughingly dismiss as naive.
Mr Gyurcsany hung on but this weekend another tape leaked, on which his local government minister, Monika Lamperth, can be heard assuring party chieftains that planned spending cuts will spare Socialist-controlled regions.
The Economist Intelligence Unit is inclined to believe that, having made so much progress on the fiscal front, Mr Gyurcsany will not allow the budget deficit to inflate once more in 2009.
Mr Gyurcsany, once hailed as a young moderniser, never really recovered from the riots that erupted in autumn 2006 after his confession that his government had lied repeatedly about the state of the economy.
More than 10, 000 people stormed the streets of Budapest on Monday night after Ferenc Gyurcsany admitted: "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening, and also at night, " -- a conversation that had presumably been taped in the afternoon.
That is mainly because of the government's austerity measures, but also reflects aftershocks from the riots after a notorious speech by Ferenc Gyurcsany, the prime minister, over a year ago, in which he admitted to lying about the economy before the 2006 election.
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