Gábor Kubatov (born 17 February 1966) is a Hungarian politician,
member of the National Assembly (MP) from
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
Budapest
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Regional List from 2006 to 2014, and his party's national list since 2014.
Career
He attended to secondary school in
Pesterzsébet
Pesterzsébet is the 20th district of Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the southern part of the capital and is the 17th biggest district in the city. It is a mostly suburban area with approximately 70,000 residents.
History
Pesterzsébet was ...
. He started studies at the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences, but never finished it.
From the 1990s he worked as an entrepreneur. He worked in the fields of hospitality, commerce and inhabitants service. He moved to Soroksár with his family in 1997.
He has been chairman of the District XXIII of Budapest
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán.
It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
branch since 2002. He has been party director of Fidesz since 1 July 2006.
In the
parliamentary elections held in 2006, he was elected from the Budapest Regional List. He was member of the Committee on Culture and the Media since 9 October 2006 to 13 May 2010. He also secured a mandate from the party's Budapest Regional List during the
2010 parliamentary election. He was a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Minority, Civic and Religious Affairs from 30 May 2006 to 5 May 2014.
Kubatov served as campaign executive of the party during the
Hungarian fees abolishment referendum in 2008 and the
2009 European Parliament election in Hungary
The 2009 European Parliament election in Hungary was the election of the delegation from Hungary to the European Parliament in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 ...
. He is the current President of the
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros ...
. He was elected one of the four vice-presidents of the Fidesz on 13 December 2015.
Controversies
* Kubatov is one of the most passive MPs in the National Assembly since 2006. During his parliamentary career, he gave a speech only once, on April 3, 2007.
* In two audio recordings (disclosed in 2010) and in a video (disclosed in 2012) Kubatov speaks about creating and managing a list containing data on the party preference of voters. Fidesz allegedly uses this list to activate its voters. Additionally, in the video Kubatov instructs Fidesz-activists to break the campaign silence period to send lazy sympathizers to vote.
Így működik a titkos Kubatov-lista!
''Blikk''. Retrieved 13 September 2013
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kubatov, Gabor
1966 births
Living people
Fidesz 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)
Politicians from Budapest