priest. Since confirmation can only be taken once, some regarded this claim as a giveaway that he was not telling the truth, while others such as Catholic bishop Endre Gyulay supposed he meant he took part in preparations for a confirmation. In connection with the unrest fuelled by his speech, he has been criticised in The Economist for "turning a blind eye to police brutality". On 13 January 2009, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, travelled to Budapest to ask Gyurcsány about their agreement made in October, regarding the stabilization of Hungarian government spending. Gazprom As a Prime Minister, Gyurcsány was said to be an advocate of the South Stream pipeline project, which is aimed to supply Russian gas directly to the EU, bypassing transit countries such as Ukraine. He signed the contract in Moscow just week before a referendum at Hungary, which showed around 80% of the votes were against the government reforms. However, the questions of the referendum (two concerning health care and one concerning education) had no relation to the issue of possible pipelines built in the country. Gyurcsány stated that it is an unlucky situation for a country to have only one supplier (Russia) of any resource, which in this particular case is natural gas. He said the South Stream pipeline only diversifies routes from the same source country. He also advocated the Nabucco Pipeline which was planned to transfer gas from the Middle-East, as he considered this as a pipeline which diversifies the source of natural gas also. References Notes External links Hungarian PM appears on Internet as Hugh Grant The page of the Demokratikus Koalíció party His biography The 100 richest people in Hungary, 2002., origo.hu. (Original URL) 1961 births Living people Democratic Coalition (Hungary) politicians Hungarian businesspeople Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026) People from Pápa People involved in plagiarism controversies Prime Ministers of Hungary