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Veszprém County Assembly
The Veszprém County Assembly () is the local legislative body of Veszprém County in the Central Transdanubia, in Hungary. Composition 2019 The Assembly elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 17 counselors, with the following party composition: , - , colspan=8 align=center, , - ! colspan="2" , Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! Seats % , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Fidesz–KDNP , align= 62,209 , align= 54.01 , align= 4.81 , align= 10 , align= 0 , align= 73.34 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Jobbik , align= 14,030 , align= 12.18 , align= 8.23 , align= 2 , align= 1 , align= 11.76 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Democratic Coalition (DK) , align= 11,654 , align= 10.12 , align= 4.24 , align= 2 , align= 1 , align= 11.76 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) , align= 10,753 , align= 9.34 , align= 7.07 , align= 1 , align= 2 , align= 5.88 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left , Momentu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidesz–KDNP
Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance (), formerly also known as the Alliance of Hungarian Solidarity (), is a right-wing national conservative political alliance of two political parties in Hungary, the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz) and the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). The two parties jointly contested every national election since the 2006 parliamentary election. The Fidesz–KDNP party alliance has governed Hungary since 2010, altogether obtaining a supermajority in each of the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 national elections. History The two parties formed their permanent electoral coalition on 10 December 2005. After the 2006 election, Fidesz and KDNP separately formed parliamentary groups, but they established a caucus alliance in the Hungarian parliament. Technically Fidesz and KDNP are a coalition, but many consider KDNP to actually be a satellite party of Fidesz, since it has been unable to get into the Parliament on its own since 1994 when it ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Alliance (Hungary)
The National Democratic Alliance (; NDSZ) was a short-lived centre-left party in Hungary, founded and led by Zoltán Bíró and Imre Pozsgay, defectors from the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) and the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP), respectively. History The NDSZ was formed on 17 May 1991 by intellectuals from both left–right political spectrum, including Sándor Sára, Barna Tálas, Sándor Püski, István Kukorelli and András Mezei. By 1993, in addition to Pozsgay, three other Members of Parliament; Kata Beke, a former Political Secretary of State of Education, Péter Szél and Zoltán Varga had joined the party, all of them from the MDF. The party wanted to retain the spirit of the Hungarian Round Table Talks and the Lakitelek meeting, the benefits of peaceful democratic change. The NDSZ had a third way The Third Way is a predominantly centrist political position that attempts to reconcile centre-right and centre-left politics by advocating a varying synthesis of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Gőgös
Zoltán Gőgös (born 9 May 1960) is a Hungarian agricultural engineer and Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2002 and 2018 (except for a short period of time in 2014). He served as Secretary of State for Agriculture and Rural Development from 2006 to 2010. Studies and profession Gőgös was born in Pápa on 9 May 1960. He finished his secondary studies at the local Türr István Gymnasium in 1978. He earned a degree of agricultural mechanical engineer at the Agricultural College of Nyíregyháza in 1981. He worked as a branch head for the State Farm of Pápa and its legal successor, the Agroprodukt Ltd. from 1981 until 2000. He earned a second degree of economist engineer at the Zalaegerszeg Institute of the Financial and Accounting College in 1997. He functioned as the production director of the Készenlét Mezőgazdasági Szolgáltató Ltd. since 2001. Political career Gőgös is a founding member of the Hungarian Sociali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Ferenczi
Gábor Ferenczi (born 28 May 1977) is a Hungarian educator and politician, who has been the mayor of Devecser since 2014. Prior to that, he was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014. He was a politician of the far-right Jobbik, then Our Homeland Movement. Career Gábor Ferenczi was born in Ajka on 28 May 1977. He graduated as a Hungarian-German teacher in 1999 and as a cultural organizer in the Teacher Training College Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He joined the paramilitary Magyar Gárda in the spring of 2008. He was a founding member and president of the local branch of the Jobbik in Ajka since 2008. He was elected president of the party's branch in Veszprém County in December 2008. He functioned as a vice-president of the party's electoral board since September 2009. Ferenczi was elected a Member of Parliament via the Veszprém County regional list of the Jobbik in the 2010 parliamentary election. He was involved in the Committee on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (Hungary)
Together (, ), officially Together – Party for a New Era (), formerly also known as Together 2014 (), was a Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Hungary, political party in Hungary formed on 26 October 2012 for the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election by Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, to contest Viktor Orbán's government. Together was founded as a coalition of left-wing and liberal political movements and civil organizations that transformed itself into a party in March 2013. The party had formed an electoral alliance with the Dialogue for Hungary (PM) and they won together four seats in the Hungarian Parliament, national assembly and one seat in the European Parliament in 2014. Together dissolved after its poor performance in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election, 2018 parliamentary election. Members During its foundation, the coalition consisted of three civil society organizations: * Patriotism and Progress Association led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Hungarian Local Elections
Local elections were held in Hungary on October 12, 2014. It was the first local election according to the new Constitution of Hungary The Fundamental Law of Hungary (), the country's constitution, was adopted by parliament on 18 April 2011, promulgated by the president a week later and entered into force on 1 January 2012. It is Hungary's first constitution adopted within a dem ... which went into force on 1 January 2012. The new electoral law entered into force that day. Changes compared to 2010 * The two following municipal terms (2014-2019 and 2019-2024) will last for 5 years. * The election rules for the General Assembly of Budapest has changed. Before 2014 the members of the General Assembly of Budapest were the mayor of Budapest and 32 members elected from party lists just the same way as the members of the General Assemblies of the counties are elected. From 2014 on, the 33 members of the city council are: **the mayor of Budapest **the 23 mayors of the districts of Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as the "best year in human history" by some newspapers and media outlets in the United States, including ''The New York Times'' and ''WNYC''. Events January * January 1 ** Romania takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the 2018 Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Austrian presidency. ** ''New Horizons'' makes a close approach to the Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC. ** Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil. ** Qatar withdraws from OPEC. ** Works published by authors who died in 1948 enter the public domain in International copyright treaties, many countries. In the Copyright law of the United States, U.S., all works publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resulting in 28,646 confirmed infections and 11,323 confirmed deaths according to the World Health Organization, who declared it a Public health emergency of international concern, Public Health Emergency in August. The virus caused major Western African Ebola epidemic#Economic effects, socioeconomic disruption in the region, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Other notable health concerns in 2014 included a significant increase in polio cases in Pakistan. The rise of Islamic State, ISIS became a major Geopolitics, geopolitical crisis in 2014 after the group declared a global caliphate and launched devastating List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State, offensives in Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014), Iraq and 2014 Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year dissipated in this year. In addition, the OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gained four new members; Chile, Slovenia, Israel, and Estonia. 2010 also saw advancements in technology such as the release of the iPad, the public launch of Instagram, and the first successful trapping of antimatter. 2010 was designated as: *International Year of Biodiversity *International Year of Youth *2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion *International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures Pronunciation There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand (and) ten" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Hungarian Local Elections
Local elections took place in Hungary on 1 October 2006 amidst a period of protests and demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. In many cities, demonstrators urged people not to vote for the MSZP candidate at the elections, and Fidesz made heavy use of the fact that Gyurcsány had admitted lying in its campaign leaflets and phone calls. In response, Gyurcsány insisted in a speech he held in Szeged on 15 September that the local elections would have no bearing on his party staying in power, and "those who don't want a war between the government and the city should know whom to vote for". Before the elections, the polling firm Szonda Ipsos had predicted a victory for candidates of the main opposition party Fidesz – 34% of the people asked said they would vote for Fidesz, while only 22% voiced a preference for the MSZP. The opinion poll showed Fidesz with a clear lead in towns having fewer than 10,000 inhabitants (Fidesz 38%, MSZP 19%) and a nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Hungarian Local Elections
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
