Zoltán Király (born 23 May 1948) is a Hungarian journalist, educator and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for

Szeged Szeged ( , ; see also #Etymology, other alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat ...

(

Csongrád County Csongrád (; , archaically also ''Црноград/Crnograd,'' ) is a town in Csongrád County in southern Hungary. History At the time of the Hungarian Conquest (the end of 9th century) the Maros Valley was under Bulgarian control. The fortre ...

Constituency V then II) between 1985 and 1994.

Biography

Király was born in

Kiskunfélegyháza Kiskunfélegyháza () is a city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary. Geography Kiskunfélegyháza is located in the middle of the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. M5 motorway, Highway 5, 451, Budapest–Cegléd–Szeged railway line ...

on 23 May 1948. He finished his primary and secondary studies in

Kecskemét Kecskemét ( ) is a city with county rights in central Hungary. It is the List of cities and towns of Hungary, eighth-largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun County, Bács-Kiskun. Kecskemét lies halfway between the ca ...

. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the József Attila University in 1971. He studied pedagogy in the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College (today part of the

University of Szeged The University of Szeged () is a Public university, public research university in Szeged, Hungary. Established as the Jesuit Academy of Kolozsvár in present-day Cluj-Napoca in 1581, the institution was re-established as a university in 1872 by ...

) between 1975 and 1979. He served as a responsible for culture in the

Bács-Kiskun County Bács-Kiskun (, ) is a county (''vármegye'' in Hungarian) located in southern Hungary. It was created by the merger of the pre-World War II Bács-Bodrog and the southern parts of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun counties. With an area of 8,445 km2, ...

Committee of the Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) between 1971 and 1978. He edited the ''Petőfi Népe'' between 1973 and 1975 and the

Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian ...

studio of the

Magyar Rádió Magyar Rádió (, MR, ''The Hungarian Radio Corporation'', also known as ''Radio Budapest'') was Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation until 2015. It was also the country's official international broadcasting station. Since ...

from 1975 to 1978. He also worked for the

Magyar Televízió Magyar Televízió (, ''Hungarian Television'') or MTV is a nationwide public television broadcasting organization in Hungary. Headquartered in Budapest, it is the oldest television broadcaster in Hungary and today airs five channels: M1 HD, ...

. He was a member of the

Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (, , MSZMP) was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of the Hungarian People's Republic between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the Hungaria ...

(MSZMP) between 1974 and 1988. He became a member of the National Assembly in 1985 when he defeated as a spontaneous candidate the party secretary of Csongrád County. He joined the New March Front, an oppositional group, in 1988, as a result he was expelled from the state party along with his three colleagues. During the first democratic parliamentary election in 1990, he was elected as MP for Szeged as a member of the

Hungarian Democratic Forum The Hungarian Democratic Forum (, , MDF) was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a Hungarian nationalist, national-conservative, Christian-democratic ideology. The party was represented continuously in the National Assembly from t ...

(MDF). However he left the MDF parliamentary group four weeks later and became an Independent MP until the end of the parliamentary term. He joined the

Hungarian Social Democratic Party The Social Democratic Party of Hungary (, , MSZDP) is a social democratic political party in Hungary. Historically, the party was dissolved during the occupation of Hungary by Nazi Germany (1944–1945) and the communist period of Hungary from ...

(MSZDP) in 1990. He served as managing director of the HT Press in 1991. He was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1990 and from 1992 to 1994. He functioned as President of the MSZDP between 1993 and 1994. He was a member of the

Hungarian Socialist Party The Hungarian Socialist Party (, ), commonly known by its acronym MSZP (), is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary. It was founded on 7 October 1989 as a post-communist evolution and one of t ...

(MSZP) from 1997 to 2001. In 2014, Király ran as a

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(LMP) candidate of local representative in

Újbuda Újbuda (lit. ''New Buda'') is the 11th district of Budapest (), Hungary. It is the most populous district of Budapest with 137,426 inhabitants (2008). Until the 1890s, Újbuda's present territory was a field south of the historical town of Buda. ...

for the 2014 municipal election.

References

Sources

* István Elek: ''Rendszerváltoztatók húsz év után''. Magyar Rádió Zrt. és Heti Válasz Lap- és Könyvkiadó Kft., 2009. pp. 170–177. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiraly, Zoltan 1948 births Living people Hungarian journalists 20th-century Hungarian educators Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Hungarian Democratic Forum politicians Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–1990) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1990–1994) People from Kiskunfélegyháza