Balázs Horváth

Balázs Horváth (born August 13, 1942 in Budapest , † July 2, 2006 in Veszprém , Hungary ) was a Hungarian politician .

biography

After graduating from Lajos-Lóczy- Gymnasium in Balatonfüred , he studied political and social sciences from 1960 to 1965 at the Loránd-Eötvös University and graduated with a diploma. After completing his postgraduate studies in law at the Pannonian University of Veszprém , he was admitted to the bar in 1968 .

In 1988 Horváth was one of the founding members of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (Magyar Demokrata Fórum, MDF).

After the political change in Hungary in 1990 he was elected as a representative of the Veszprém constituency as a member of parliament (Országgyűlés) and in May 1990 as Minister of the Interior in the first freely elected government under Prime Minister József Antall . His successor as Minister of the Interior was Péter Boross in December 1990 . However, Horváth later resigned from the MDF and was elected MP as an independent candidate in 1994. In 2004 he founded the National Forum (Nemzeti Fórum) and then formed an electoral alliance with the Hungarian Citizens' Union (Fidesz - Magyar Polgári Szövetség) .

In the parliamentary elections in April 2006 , he was re-elected as a member of the joint list with FIDESZ, but died just under two months later.

personal data
SURNAME	Horváth, Balázs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 2006
Place of death	Veszprém , Hungary