Budapest  - Police have used tear-gas to break up rioting right-wing demonstrators at a protest in Budapest on Saturday evening, security officials have said.

Several hundred sympathisers of the so-called 64-Counties Movement demonstrated in the city centre in response to an earlier rally by the anti-fascist Hungarian Democratic Charter, at which Hungary's socialist prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany had appeared as a speaker.

According to police reports, the right-wing demonstrators threw stones at security forces. The movement takes its name from the number of Hungary's territorial divisions prior to the end of the WWI.

The Hungarian Democratic Charter was formed by left-wing intellectuals in response to the growth of right-wing extremism in Hungary.

Gyurcsany, who called on Sunday for parliament to dissolve itself so that new elections can be held to end a government crisis, said regarding the demonstration that Hungarians should "struggle against each other no longer."

Author Gyorgy Konrad, former president of the Berlin Academy of Art, called at the demonstration for Hungary to work together against the "brown rain" currently pouring down onto the country. (dpa)