Zsolt Komlósy (11 July 1955 – 8 July 2005) was a Slovak politician. He served as a

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of the

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from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2002 until his death.

Biography

Zsolt Komlósy was born on 11 July 1955 in

Rimavská Sobota Rimavská Sobota (; , ) is a town in southern Slovakia, in the Banská Bystrica Region, on the Rimava river. It has approximately 24,000 inhabitants. The town is a historical capital of Gömör és Kishont County (from 1850 to 1922). Geography ...

to a Hungarian family. In 1979 he graduated in theoretical cybernetics from the

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice ( Slovak ''Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach'') is a university located in Košice, Slovakia. It was founded in 1959 and is organized into five faculties. The university is named after P ...

. Afterwards, he studied economics at the

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. Afterwards, he participated in projects related to introduction of computers in agriculture. Komlósy became politically active in 1992, when he was elected to parliament on the list of the

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party. He lost his seat after the dissolution of the party in 1998 but won the mandate again in the

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on the list of the

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. Komplósy died at the age of 49 as a result of a stroke he suffered at an event organized by the Party of the Hungarian Coalition in the

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village on 8 July 2005. His death started a political crisis as the opposition led by

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repeatedly blocked the swearing in of Komplósy's replacement Pál Keszegh, thus depriving the government of its one-seat majority. Komlósy was married, with one daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Komlosy, Zsolt 1955 births 2005 deaths People from Rimavská Sobota Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1992–1994 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2002-2006 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1994-1998 Party of the Hungarian Community politicians Hungarians in Slovakia