Erzsébet Gy. Németh (born 21 January 1962) is a Hungarian politician. Previously she served as member of the

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, member of the Budapest General Assembly and member of the board of the Democratic Coalition. From 2019, she is one of the deputy mayors of Budapest.

Career

She graduated from the Miklós Steinmetz Grammar School in Budapest (now

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Evangelical Kindergarten, Primary School and Grammar School) and then graduated as a teacher of geography at the Primary School Teachers' Training College at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1988. She was involved in the

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since 1984. She was the leader of the election office of the Left Youth Association from 1989 to 1994. She became an MSZP member in 1993, and a member of the General Assembly of the Capital City since 1994, where she served as the deputy leader of the MSZP's Budapest Fraction until 2000. In 2000 Gy. Németh became the leader of the MSZP's Budapest Fraction, serving in this position until 2006. She was candidate for the position of

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in the 2002 mayoral election, but came to only the third place after

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and

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. In 2006, she was elected as an MSZP Budapest List candidate on the

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. She unsuccessfully ran for mayor of

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(District XVII of Budapest) in

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and

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too, but was defeated by Levente Riz and Tamás Horváth, respectively. Gy. Németh ran for an individual seat in

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) during the 2018 parliamentary election, but was defeated by

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candidate

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. She was appointed Deputy Mayor of Budapest for Human Policies in November 2019. On the Hungarian Opposition Primary, 2021, she unsuccessfully ran as an individual constituency candidate. After she won a seat in the

on the

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by being the 14th candidate on the national list of the joint opposition alliance

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, she gave up her deputy mayoral position, because under Hungarian law one cannot hold local governmental and national politician offices in the same time.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gy. Nemeth, Erzsebet 1962 births Living people Democratic Coalition (Hungary) politicians Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026) Women members of the National Assembly of Hungary