László Puch (born 7 November 1953) is a Hungarian entrepreneur and

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(MSZP) politician. He was a Member of Parliament between 1994 and 2014. He functioned as his party's treasurer from 1998 to 2008, becoming an influential " grey eminence" and powerful politician behind the Socialist cabinets. He served as Secretary of State for Transport, Communications and Energy from 2008 to 2010. As a businessman, he has extensive media interests with ''

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'' and '' Vasárnapi Hírek''. In 2018 he sold the weekly newspaper ''

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'' to the

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in 2018 which is close to the Hungarian

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