1.   In fact, none of the four main ethnic Hungarian parties in Slovakia has ever advocated a merger with Hungary.

2.   A dozen Hungarian political parties have gathered enough electoral support to field a full slate of candidates for May elections, an election official said Wednesday.

3.   All Hungarian political parties in Parliament support EU membership.

4.   An unknown attacker threw a grenade at the house of a member of parliament from an ethnic Hungarian party, news reports said Monday.

5.   Attacks on the Hungarian party by government officials and nationalist parties which urged it be banned, angered neighboring Hungary and soured bilateral relations.

6.   Bishop Laszlo Toekes made the call Sunday during a meeting of the Democratic Union of Hungarians, the main ethnic Hungarian party.

7.   He also expressed his pleasure that EU membership is one of the few issues all Hungarian parliamentary parties agree on.

8.   It demanded that the Hungarian party disband both its council of mayors and councillors and a council of representatives, dubbed a mini-parliament.

9.   It sees the three ethnic Hungarian political parties as the natural bodies to make that decision.

10.   Leaders of the Democratic Convention, an umbrella grouping of opposition parties, announced the break with the Hungarian party after a four-hour meeting.