Police dispersed the last of the thousands of demonstrators who clashed with officers in Hungary’s capital Budapest during commemorations on the anniversary of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule.

Police have fired rubber bullets at anti-government protesters today, as Hungary commemorated the 50th anniversary of its anti-Soviet uprising.

Hungarians went to the polls today in a run-off parliamentary election that could deliver a small majority to the governing coalition led by Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, which would make it the first post-communist administration to win re-election.