Gábor Borbély

Gábor Borbély (* 1. November 1937 in Nemesvámos , small area Veszprém , Veszprém County ) is a former Hungarian journalist and politician of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) , among others, from 1975 to 1980 a member of the collective state presidency, and from 1985 to 1989 editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Népszabadság .

Life

Borbély, who came from a family of Freemasons , graduated from school at the Szeged University of Education (Szegedi Pedagógiai Főiskola) , from which he graduated in 1959 with the teaching examination. He then worked from 1959 to 1962 at the Institute for Apprentices of the Ministry of Labor and then the administration of the Communist Youth League KISZ (Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség) . In 1963 he became a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) and initially an employee and later deputy head of the political department of the KISZ Committee in Budapest . From 1968 to 1969 he was secretary of the KISZ committee in VI. Budapest district (Terézváros) and from 1969 to December 1971 department head in the Central Committee (ZK) of the KISZ. He then acted between December 1971 and 1977 as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

Borbély was also elected on June 15, 1975 as a candidate on the joint list of the Hungarian Independent Popular Front MFN (Magyar Függetlenségi Népfront) and the Patriotic Popular Front HNF (Hazafias Népfront) as a member of the Hungarian Parliament (Országgyűlés) . April 1985 belonged to. From 1975 to 1980 he was also a member of the collective state presidium (Magyar Népköztársaság Elnöki Tanácsa)

After studying at the MSZMP party college, he became first secretary of the party committee in the fifth district of Budapest (Belváros-Lipótváros) in 1977 . In June 1981 he became secretary for administrative affairs of the MSZMP Party Committee of Budapest and held this position until December 1985. On March 28, 1985 he was on the XIII. Party Congress elected member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and was also a member of the Working Committee between 1985 and 1988 and a member of the Central Committee of the Central Committee in 1986. As the successor to János Berecz , he took over the post of editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Népszabadság in December 1985 , the national daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Hungary. He then became head of the Central Committee for Elections on May 8, 1989.

Web links

• Entry in Történelmi Tár (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In parliament he initially represented the constituency of Győr-Moson-Sopron County No. 9 and then the constituency of Budapest No. 13 .