Budapest - Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has nominated Janos Takacs, the CEO of Electolux Hungary, as a his replacement, the news agency MTI reported on Friday. Takacs, a former financial director of IBM Hungary, would neither confirm or deny whether he had been asked to consider the position.
"It would be a greater honour and I would at least consider it," Takacs told the Hungarian state news agency MTI.
Speculation has been rife over who will head a new Hungarian government after Gyurcsany, announced on Saturday that he would step aside.
The front runner Gyorgy Suranyi, a former finance minister and regional head of Italian banking group Intesa SanPaolo, turned the job down yesterday after failing to secure all-party support.
The centre-right opposition party Fidesz insists that early elections are the only solution to Hungary's political and economic crisis, and refuses to cooperate in setting up an interim crisis government. doa rh jbl
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