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Péter Kiss
Péter Kiss (11 June 1959 – 29 July 2014) was a Hungarian Socialist politician. In Bajnai's government, he was a minister without portfolio. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minister in 2004 but lost to Ferenc Gyurcsány. Career In 1983 he graduated from the Technical University in Budapest, majoring in engineering. He was a member of the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers and the Society of Economic Sciences. In 1989 he was a founder and first leader of the Left Youth Association. Since 1992, he was a board member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), and since 1994 a member of its presidium. In 1992 he became a member of the National Assembly, where worked until his death. Kiss served as president of MSZP's local branch in Vas County from 2005 to 2009. In 1995-1998 he served as minister of work in the office of Prime Minister Gyula Horn. From 2002 to 2003 he served as minister of employment and work in the government of Prime Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Hungary
The Government of Hungary ( hu, Magyarország Kormánya) exercises executive (government), executive power in Hungary. It is led by the Prime Minister of Hungary, Prime Minister, and is composed of various ministers. It is the principal organ of public administration. The Prime Minister (''miniszterelnök'') is elected by the National Assembly (Hungary), National Assembly and serves as the head of government and exercises Executive (government), executive power. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party with the most seats in parliament. The Prime Minister selects Cabinet ministers and has the exclusive right to dismiss them. Cabinet nominees must appear before consultative open hearings before one or more parliamentary committees, survive a vote in the National Assembly, and be formally approved by the President. The cabinet is responsible to the parliament. Since the fall of communism, Hungary has a multi-party system. A Hungarian parliamentary election, 2018, new Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyula Horn
Gyula János Horn (5 July 1932 – 19 June 2013) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1994 to 1998. Horn is remembered as the last Communist Minister of Foreign Affairs who played a major role in the demolishing of the "Iron Curtain" for East Germans in 1989, contributing to the later unification of Germany, and for the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, launched under his premiership, in 1995. Early life and education Horn was born in Budapest in 1932 as the third child of transport worker Géza Horn who was of Jewish background and factory worker Anna Csörnyei. He was brought up in a Lutheran household. They lived in conditions of poverty at the so-called "Barrack" estate between Nagyicce and Sashalom. There were seven brothers in the family: filmmaker Géza (1925–1956), Károly (1930–1946), Tibor (1935), Sándor (1939), Tamás (1942) and Dénes (1944). After the German occupation of Hunga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Csaba Molnár
Csaba Molnár (born 4 December 1975) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He is a member of the Democratic Coalition. He served as Minister of Transport, Communications and Energy in the second cabinet of Ferenc Gyurcsány, later as a Minister of the Prime Minister's Office (''Minister of Chancellery'') in the government of Gordon Bajnai. Political career Molnár was a part of Gyurcsány's inner circle in the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP). As a result, he joined Democratic Coalition Platform founded by the former prime minister and became its deputy chairman. When the platform split from the Socialists on 22 October 2011 he joined to newly formed party and left the MSZP and its parliamentary group. He was appointed leader of the parliamentary group, however according to the decision of the Constitutional and Procedural Committee, the Democratic Coalition could not form an own parliamentary group because of the parliamentary house rules. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Szilvásy
György Szilvásy (born April 29, 1958, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, a former minister in the cabinet of Ferenc Gyurcsány supervising the secret service. Education and career He obtained an economic degree in the academic specialization of international relations in 1982 from Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem (today Corvinus University). In 1985 he obtained a doctoral title. In the Prime Minister's Office (MEH), of Imre Pozsgay he worked as a government chief counselor on a Ministers of State secretariat in 1989. He was also the spokesman of the Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) central committee in the same year (previously he was KISZ leader at the university). He met Ferenc Gyurcsány, who became Prime Minister at KISZ during this time. Between 1989 and 1990 he was on the supervisory board of Magyar Televízió and Magyar Rádió, and held a position as under-secretary in Prime Minister's Office (MEH). Between 1998 and 2000 he was the CEO of Altus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Szekeres
Imre Szekeres (born 9 September 1950) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian politician of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and former Minister of Defense. Biography Szekeres was born in Szolnok. He is married to a chemical engineer; they have two children. He graduated from the University of Pannonia, Veszprém University of Chemical Engineering as a chemical systems engineer in 1974. After graduation he spent three years at the Cybernetics Institute of the University as an assistant lecturer while studying for a PhD degree. The subject of his 1977 PhD dissertation was the development of artificial intelligence. In 1985, he joined to the City Council of Veszprém, where he later became the deputy chairman. He was one of the first promoters and organizers of the reformist circle movement in Veszprém county. He was a founding member of the MSZP in October 1989, and in his county he became the first president of the party. In May 1990 he was elected as the national secretary of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Burány
Sándor Burány (born 19 August 1956) is a Hungarian economist and politician, who served as Minister of Employment and Labour from 2003 to 2004, in the cabinet of Péter Medgyessy. He was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 1994 to 2022. Profession Burány was born in Budapest on 19 August 1956. He raised in Kispest, the 19th district of the capital. He graduated and obtained an electronic technician qualification at the Latinca Sándor Secondary School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 1974. After finishing secondary studies, he worked for the Ganz Instrument Works (GMM) as a technician from 1974 to 1981. He earned a degree in instrument manufacturing and maintenance technician in 1977. He completed compulsory military service between 1979 and 1980. He was administrative rapporteur from 1981 to 1986 and head of the internal audit capability from 1986 to 1988 at his workplace. Meanwhile, in a course of evening class from 1982 to 1987, Burány graduated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Harrach
Péter Pál Harrach (born 2 November 1947) is a Hungarian politician and theologian, who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Family in the first cabinet of Viktor Orbán from 1998 to 2002. He was one of the Deputy Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary from 27 May 2002 to 13 May 2010. He is a member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 18 June 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) parliamentary group between 2010 and 2020. Political career He finished King Stephen I Grammar School in 1966. He graduated as a theologian from the Roman Catholic Academy of Theology in 1972. He worked in numerous parishes as an assistant to the priest. He was the rapporteur of secular matters in the Episcopal Secretariat of the Hungarian Catholic Episcopal Conference, and he was a member of the family ministering commission from 1990 to 1998. He joined the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) in 1989, where he was active as Church policy expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Kósáné Kovács
Magda Kósáné Kovács (4 November 1940 – 27 July 2020) was a Hungarian politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She left the Socialist Party and joined Democratic Coalition founded and led by Ferenc Gyurcsány Ferenc Gyurcsány (; born 4 June 1961) is a Hungarian entrepreneur and politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009. Prior to that, he held the position of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports between 2003 and 2004. He ... in 2011 and became head of the new party's ethical committee. Personal life She was married to Dr Levente Kósa. She is survived by two daughters, Judit and Eszter. References Profile at the European Parliament 1940 births 2020 deaths Women members of the National Assembly of Hungary Hungarian Socialist Party MEPs Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Democratic Coalition (Hungary) politicians MEPs for Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Boross
Péter Boross (born 27 August 1928) is a retired Hungarian politician and former member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He assumed the position upon the death of his predecessor, József Antall, and held the office until his right-wing coalition was defeated in election by the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), which was led by his successor Gyula Horn. Prior to his premiership, Boross functioned as Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services (1990) and Minister of the Interior (1990–1993). He was also a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2009. Early life (1928–1957) Boross was born in Nagybajom on 27 August 1928 as the son of György Boross (1896–1993), who participated in the First World War from 1915 to 1918. Returning home, he became a member of the Order of Vitéz and was forest engineer at the Somssich estate. His mother, Lujza Horváth (1905–1993) came from a smallh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerepesi Cemetery
Kerepesi Cemetery (Hungarian: ''Kerepesi úti temető'' or ''Kerepesi temető'', official name: ''Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert'', i.e. "Fiume Road National Graveyard") is the most famous cemetery in Budapest. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Hungary, and has been almost completely preserved. Overview Founded in 1847, Kerepesi is located in outer Józsefváros, near Keleti pályaudvar (Eastern Railway Station), and can be reached via Budapest Metro line 2. It is the innermost cemetery of Budapest, although it still lies about 2 km from the downtown centre. Kerepesi is one of the biggest national pantheons in Europe and the biggest outdoor statue park with its area of about . It is sometimes referred to as the Père Lachaise of Budapest. The cemetery's first burial took place some two years after its opening, in 1849. Since then numerous Hungarian notables (statesmen, writers, sculptors, architects, artists, composers, scientists, actors and actresses etc.) have b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Can Be Different
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
András Schiffer
András Schiffer (born 19 June 1971 in Budapest) is a Hungarian lawyer and former politician, who served as co-president of the Politics Can Be Different and leader of its parliamentary group. Schiffer announced his retirement from politics on 31 May 2016. Early life András Schiffer was born in Budapest on 19 June 1971 to journalist Péter Schiffer (born 1943), a former deputy director of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority (PSZÁF) and jurist Anna Hajnal. Among his uncles are director Pál Schiffer and Socialist politician János Schiffer, who served as Deputy Mayor of Budapest between 1994 and 2006. His grandfather was Pál Schiffer Sr., a Member of Parliament and Hungarian Ambassador to Norway. His great-grandfather was Árpád Szakasits, a leading Social Democrat, then Communist political figure also president of Hungary in (1948–1949) and Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1950) during Communist rule. Schiffer receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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