Gábor Demszky
Gábor Demszky [ ˈɡaːbor ˈdɛmski ] (born August 4, 1952 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian politician. The lawyer and sociologist was Lord Mayor of Budapest from October 31, 1990 to October 3, 2010. Before the fall of the Iron Curtain , Demszky was a publisher and editor of samizdat .
Life
Demszky is a member of the Hungarian Liberals (SZDSZ, Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége ). In addition to his role as Mayor of Budapest, he was also chairman of his party for a year and a half from 2000 to 2001.
Demszky studied law from 1970 to 1976. During this time he belonged to a left-opposition student group and had to interrupt his studies between 1972 and 1973. He was denied employment as a lawyer; so he worked for the newspaper Világosság until 1979 and studied sociology. After working on opposition projects, Demszky was released from Világosság and was banned from traveling and publishing.
In the following years he worked for small publishers. In 1981 he co-founded the independent publishing house AB together with László Rajk, the son of the foreign minister of the same name who was executed in 1949 . a. Published works of the Polish opposition. Demszky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in 1983 for the publication of Samizdat publications by Solidarność and György Konrád , which was suspended.
On November 13, 1988 he was one of the founders of the SZDSZ. In June 2004 Demszky was elected to the EU Parliament . He had to resign from his parliamentary seat on October 29 of the same year because it was found that his OB post was incompatible with it. Viktória Mohácsi took over his seat.
On the day of the Hungarian parliamentary election, on April 8, 2018, Gábor Demszky caused a stir with violent acts: when he handed out leaflets to citizens standing in line in front of polling stations and was asked about their content by reporters from the Fidesz government-affiliated Echo-TV (presumably calls to opposition Voting behavior), he reacted verbally and physically abusive to them.
Web links
- Short biography on the MDR website ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography. ( Memento of May 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) budapest.hu
- Entry on Gábor Demszky in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Gábor Demszky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demszky, Gábor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |