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Tibor Déri (born 1985) is a Hungarian politician, who has been the Mayor of
Újpest Újpest (; german: Neu-Pest, en, New Pest) is the 4th District in Budapest, Hungary. It is located on the left bank of the Danube River. The name Újpest means "New Pest" because the city was formed on the border of the city of Pest, Hungary i ...
(4th district of
Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
) since 2019.


Life and career

Tibor Déri was born in
Eger Eger ( , ; ; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights. Eger is best known for its castle, thermal baths, baroque bu ...
,
Heves County Heves county ( hu, Heves megye, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-S ...
. He is married and has three children. He earned a degree of geography and environment high school teacher at the University of Debrecen. He is also qualified as a renewable energy specialist. The topic of his thesis is the possible application of high-power wind turbines in Hungary. He worked for E.ON Hungária Ltd. as an environmental expert between 2009 and 2013. Thereafter, he was an EHS consultant at Denkstatt Hungary Ltd. until July 2019.


Political career

He entered into politics when joined
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as a "disappointed
Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán. It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...
voter", according to himself. He unsuccessfully ran as his party's candidate of MP for Hatvan (Heves County Constituency III) during the 2018 parliamentary election. He was one of the organizers of the anti-government protests in Újpest in December 2018. As a local patriot, Tibor Déri initiated the opposition parties should nominee a joint candidate against mayor Zsolt Wintermantel (Fidesz) for the 2019 local elections. Déri, who became chair of the local Újpest branch of the Momentum Movement by then, supported the nomination of
Botond Szalma Botond is a Hungarian masculine given name and may refer to: *Botond Antal (born 1991), Hungarian footballer *Botond Baráth (born 1992), Hungarian footballer *Botond Birtalan (born 1989), Hungarian footballer *Botond Bognar, American architect * ...
, a former member of the Fidesz-ally Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), along with the other opposition parties. However, Szalma stepped down as joint mayoral candidate in March 2019, citing personal reasons. Thereafter, the opposition coalition nominated Tibor Déri instead of him. In the election, Déri defeated incumbent mayor Wintermantel, receiving 50.5 percent of the vote. On 19 October 2022 he announced his intention to switch to the Democratic Coalition's fraction in the Budapest General Assembly, thus leaving the
Momentum Movement ) , ideology = , website = , country = Hungary , native_name = Momentum Mozgalom , split = , position = Centre , international = Liberal International (Observer) , european = ...
.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deri, Tibor 1985 births Living people University of Debrecen alumni Momentum Movement politicians Mayors of places in Hungary People from Eger Democratic Coalition (Hungary) politicians