Ferenc Kovács (born 1 November 1953)
is a Hungarian politician,
member of the National Assembly (MP) for
Sárvár
Sárvár ( or ; ; ) is a town in Vas County, Hungary.
Sárvár lies on the banks of the River Rába at Kemeneshát. The population is nearly 16,000. The town has become a tourist centre of international renown.
Etymology
''Sár'' means "mud" i ...
(
Vas County
Vas (, ; ; or ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') of Hungary. It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project.
Geography
Vas County lies in weste ...
Constituency IV) from 1998 to 2014.
He is the current President of the General Assembly of Vas County from 2006.
He joined
Fidesz
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal.
Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as ...
in 1992. Kovács was a member of the Committee on Sport and Tourism since 2006. He was one of the key people of the Castle Rescue Program and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Castles, Mansions and Fortresses.
In September 2013, he was dismissed as chairman of the Fidesz's Sárvár branch by the party's central leadership. According to press reports, the relationship between Kovács and fellow Fidesz member from Vas County, and also Minister of Defence,
Csaba Hende
Csaba Hende (born 5 February 1960) is a Hungarian politician who served as Minister of Defence of Hungary from 29 May 2010 to 9 September 2015 when he resigned.
Hende was born in Szombathely in 1960. In 1983 he graduated in law at the Eötvà ...
, was tense and conflictual in the previous years.
Personal life
He is married and has three children.
Fidesz-KDNP
- Népszabadság
''Népszabadság'' (; ) was a major Hungarian newspaper which was formerly the official press organ of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian People's Republic. Before its closure, ''Népszabadság'' was considered the '' d ...
References
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1953 births
Living people
Fidesz politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002)
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 (2010–2014)
Politicians from Budapest