Budapest, Oct. 6, (EFE) .- Árpád Göncz, the first president of Hungary after the fall of communism, has died at the age of 93 in Budapest, according to informed the family on Tuesday.
Göncz was elected head of state in 1990 by the then newly formed parliament after the first subsequent general elections to the fall of the communist regime.
The choice by Göncz was the result of agreements between the two major parties of the political transition in Hungary, the conservative Democratic Forum and the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats, a group that helped found in 1988.
The leader came to be re-elected for a second term in 1995 and held the position until 2000, and is considered the most popular president of Hungary since the political transition so far.
Born in Budapest on February 10, 1922, Göncz graduated in law in 1944 at the University "Péter Pázmány" of Budapest.
During the Second World War, he escaped the army and after return to Budapest joined the resistance movement against the pro-Nazi regime, saving Jews from extermination and deserters Hungarian soldiers.
The former president began political life after the war, in 1945, when he joined in the Smallholders Party. After the anti-Soviet revolution of 1956, the communist regime imprisoned him for seven years for taking part in the uprising.
During his years in prison he learned English so after his release working as a writer and literary translator. Árpád Göncz translated into Hungarian works as "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, and "The Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien.
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