László Vigh (born November 3, 1961) is a Hungarian politician,

member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the represen ...

(MP) for

Zalaszentgrót Zalaszentgrót is a town in Zala County, Hungary. The settlement incorporates the suburbs Kisszentgrót, Tüskeszentpéter, Csáford, Zalakoppány, Zalaudvarnok and Aranyod. Twin towns – sister cities Zalaszentgrót is twinned with: * Germ ...

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Zala County Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and Me� ...

Constituency V) from 2006 to 2014, and for

Zalaegerszeg Zalaegerszeg (; ; ; ) is the administrative center of Zala County, Zala county in western Hungary. Location Zalaegerszeg lies on the banks of the Zala River, close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders, and west-southwest of Budapest by road. Hi ...

(Zala County Constituency I) since 2014. He attended elementary school in

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and accomplished his studies in 1975. He passed the secondary school final examinations at Ganz Ábrahám Engineering and Transport Vocational Secondary School in

. He worked for the Fényforrás GE of

Nagykanizsa Nagykanizsa (; , or just ''Kaniža/Kanjiža''; ; ; ; ), known colloquially as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Zala County in southwestern Hungary. It is a city with county rights. It lies not far from Lake Balaton at the meeting point of five ...

from 1982 to 1986. From 1986 he continued his work in the Gelsei Farmers Cooperation. From 1994 until 2014, he served as the mayor of

Felsőrajk Felsőrajk is a village in Zala County, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the e ...

. Between 2002 and 2006 he was the Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the General Assembly of Zala County and member of the Committee on Sport and Youth. He was head of the Sport Association of Felsőrajk and leader of the village affairs of the

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 ...

branch in Zala County. As a member of the parish church of Felsőrajk he is also an organiser of the local religious activity and head of the civil guard of the town. He is a founding member and member of the board of the recently founded Griff Puppet Theatre. During the parliamentary election held in 2006, he was elected MP for Zalaszentgrót. He was appointed member of the Local Government and Urban Development Committee on 30 May 2006, holding the office until 5 May 2014. He repeated his success as MP for Zalaszentgrót during the 2010 parliamentary election. Vigh was elected MP for Zalaegerszeg in the

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and 2018 parliamentary elections. He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs since May 2014.

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