Gergely Karácsony

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Gergely Karácsony (2016)

Gergely Szilveszter Karácsony (born June 11, 1975 in Fehérgyarmat ) is a Hungarian political scientist and politician . He is co-chairman of Párbeszéd and was elected Lord Mayor of Budapest in the local elections on October 13, 2019 . Before that he was mayor of Budapest's 14th district of Zugló from 2014 to 2019 . In the 2018 parliamentary election , he ran as the top candidate in the center-left electoral alliance of MSZP and Párbeszéd.

Life

Gergely Karácsony grew up in Nyírtass and Debrecen and attended grammar school there before studying sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest from 1995 to 2000 . He then worked for the opinion and market research company Medián . At the same time, Karácsony had a lectureship at the Political Science Institute of the Corvinus University in Budapest from 2004 and was egyetemi adjunctus there from 2008 to 2012 (corresponds to an assistant professor). His research interests include voting behavior and campaigns, political opinion research and electoral systems.

Under the socialist prime ministers Medgyessy and Gyurcsány , Karácsony worked as a consultant for the Hungarian State Chancellery from 2002 to 2008. A year later he joined the newly formed green party Lehet Más a Politika (LMP) and led their campaign for the 2010 general election . With 5.3% of the vote, the LMP immediately entered parliament, which Karácsony entered via the Budapest regional list. He then took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group together with Benedek Jávor and Tímea Szabó .

Before the 2014 parliamentary elections , a group led by Jávor, Szabó and Karácsony split off from the LMP after the LMP had rejected all proposals to cooperate with other opposition parties at its party congress. They founded the Párbeszéd Magyarországért (Dialogue for Hungary, PM) party, which joined the center-left alliance Összefogás in 2014 . Karácsony appeared as a direct candidate of the alliance in the XVI. Budapest district , but was defeated there by Kristóf Szatmáry of Fidesz .

After Benedek Jávor entered the European Parliament in May of the same year, Karácsony took over his post as co-chair of the PM. In the local elections in October 2014, he ran for Együtt -PM in the election for district mayor of the Budapest municipality Zugló , where he prevailed with 42.3% of the vote against the Fidesz candidate.

In December 2017, Karácsony was nominated as the top candidate of the electoral alliance of MSZP and Párbeszéd for the 2018 parliamentary election after MSZP chairman László Botka resigned from this position. According to a Medián poll the following month, he was ranked the most popular politician in the Hungarian opposition. The electoral alliance received only 11.9% of the vote in the election, whereupon Karácsony renounced his parliamentary mandate in order to concentrate on the work as district mayor.

In the run-up to the local elections in October 2019, Karácsony emerged as the winner of the first primaries of the opposition parties for the post of mayor of Budapest. He prevailed against the candidates from MSZP, Demokratikus Koalíció and Momentum , all of whom supported him in the main election. The LMP also officially supported Karácsony. Jobbik did not support Karácsony directly, but declared that it would “accept the result of the primary elections” and would not support any other candidate. On October 13, 2019, Karácsony was elected mayor of Budapest with 50.86% of the vote, replacing the previous incumbent István Tarlós from the ruling party Fidesz .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Schiffer vezeti az LMP képviselőcsoportját. In: Index.hu , May 10, 2010 (accessed November 7, 2018)
  4. ↑ There's no other way of politics? Broken in itself: division of the Greens in Hungary. In: Pester Lloyd. 05/2013, January 27, 2013 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  5. ↑ Budapest főváros 13.számú egyéni választókerület (Budapest XVI.ker.) Eredménye. Results of the 13th Budapest constituency in the 2014 parliamentary elections, Nemzeti Választási Iroda, April 6, 2014 (accessed November 8, 2018)
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  7. ↑ Peter Münch: The hope for the left turn. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 2, 2018 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  8. ↑ Chinks in Fidesz's political armor. In: Hungarian Spectrum , February 1, 2018 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  9. ^ Ákos Albert: Lemond a mandátumáról Karácsony Gergely, Kocsis-Cake Olivio ül be a helyére a parliamentbe. In: 444.hu , May 27, 2018 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  10. ^ Marianna Biró: Karácsony Gergely nyerte a főpolgármester-jelölti előválasztást. In: Index.hu , June 26, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ A Jobbik elfogadja a Fövárosi előválasztás eredményét. In: Magyar Narancs , June 30, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019.
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personal data
SURNAME Karácsony, Gergely
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karácsony, Geregely Szilveszter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian political scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 11th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehérgyarmat