Pál Csáky

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Pál Csáky (2010)

Pál Csáky (born March 21, 1956 in Šahy , Okres Levice ) is a politician of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia . From 1998 to 2006 he was Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia, from 2007 to 2010 Chairman of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK-MKP). From 2014 to 2019 he was a member of the European Parliament .

Life and political career

Csáky graduated from the Chemical and Technological University in Pardubice from 1976-1980 and graduated as a chemical engineer. From 1981 to 1990 he worked as a technologist at the Levitex textile company in Levice in southwest Slovakia .

After the Velvet Revolution , he was a co-founder of the Maďarské kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (MKDH; Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement) in Slovakia in the spring of 1990 . In the first free election to the Slovak National Council in June 1990, he won a mandate. In the parliamentary elections in 1992 he was confirmed as a member of the National Council. From 1992 to 1998 he was deputy chairman of the MKDH.

He campaigned for a merger of the parties of the Hungarian minority, which took place in 1998 in the form of the party of the Hungarian coalition ( Strana maďarskej koalície or Magyar Koalíció Pártja , SMK-MKP). At the founding party convention he was elected deputy chairman. The party won 9.1 percent of the vote in the 1998 general election . She joined a four-party coalition under Mikuláš Dzurinda and thus contributed to the replacement of the authoritarian Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar . In the Dzurinda I government , Pál Csáky was Deputy Prime Minister responsible for human rights and minorities. The participation of the SMK-MKP in government contributed to the improvement of relations between the Hungarian minority and the Slovak government. In the 2002 National Council election, the Hungarian coalition party increased its share of the vote to 11.2 percent. Subsequently, Csáky belonged to the Dzurinda II government (2002-2006) again as Deputy Prime Minister.

After the election in June 2006 , he moved again as a member of the National Council . On March 30, 2007, the party of the Hungarian coalition elected Csáky to succeed Béla Bugár as chairman. In the 2010 National Council election , the SMK-MKP's share of the vote slumped to 4.3 percent (more than 7 percentage points less than in 2006). The day after the election, June 13, 2010, Csáky resigned as party leader.

In the 2014 European elections , Csáky was elected to the European Parliament , where he joined the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) . He was vice chairman of the Committee on Petitions and delegate for relations with India. In the 2019 European elections , the SMK-MKP lost its seat and Csáky resigned from the EU Parliament.

Awards

Web links

credentials

  1. ^ A b c Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. ME Sharpe, 2008, entry Csáky, Pál .
  2. ↑ Csáky a vedenie SMK podali demisiu (Slovak) , SME. June 13, 2010. 
  3. ^ Entry on Pál Csáky in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
personal data
SURNAME Csáky, Pál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician in Slovakia, member of the National Council, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahy