Pál Vastagh

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Pál Vastagh (born September 23, 1946 in Nagyszénás , Békés county ) is a Hungarian legal scholar , university professor and politician of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) and the Hungarian Socialist Party MSZP (Magyar Szocialista Párt) , who was among others between 1994 and 1998 Minister of Justice and Ambassador to Canada from 2006 to 2010 .

Life

Studies and university professor

Vastagh, who comes from a farming family, started training at the Technical Center for Preservatives and Meat Industry in Szeged after attending school in Orosháza and Békéscsaba in 1965 . He then graduated in law at the Attila József - University of Szeged and acquired there in 1971 a doctorate in law. In 1966 he joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party MSZMP (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt) .

He then became secretary of the Hungarian Communist Youth League KISZ (Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség) at the University of Szeged (SZTE) in 1971 , before becoming assistant professor of legal theory there in autumn 1973 . At the same time he was a member of the board of KISZ in Csongrád county as well as a member of the central committee and president of the faculty council of the law faculty of SZTE.

Vastagh, who between 1976 and 1981 was a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Council of KISZ and at the same time organizational secretary of the Scientific Committee of the University of Szeged, became an adjunct professor at the SZTE in 1977. In addition, from 1983 to 1986 he was an aspirant of the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU in Moscow . Later he was dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Szeged between July 1, 1988 and February 1, 1989 .

Politburo member of the MSZMP and state party secretary of the MSZP

On December 11, 1988, Vastagh was elected First Secretary of the MSZMP in Csongrád County. A few months later, on April 12, 1989, he was elected a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the MSZMP and, on April 13, 1989, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, the highest management body of the MSZMP. As such, he also participated in the reorganization of the party and the formation of the Political Executive Committee.

At the founding congress on October 9, 1989 of the Hungarian Socialist Party MSZP, which had emerged from the MSZMP, he was elected a member of the party presidium and acted as national party secretary of the MSZP from November 1, 1989 to September 1, 1990.

Vastagh then resumed teaching in 1990 as an adjunct professor of legal theory at the University of Szeged. In addition, he was a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Budapest, guest lecturer at the law faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Budapest Media Institute.

Member of Parliament, Minister of Justice and Member of the European Parliament

Vastagh, who was elected for the first time as a member of parliament (Országgy )lés) as a candidate for the MSZP on May 2, 1990 and was a member until October 1, 2006, was appointed Minister of Justice (Igazságügy Miniszter) by Prime Minister Gyula Horn on July 15, 1994 appointed to his cabinet. He was a member of this coalition of MSZP and the Bund Free Democrats SZDSZ (Szabad Demokraták Szövetsége) until Horn's term of office ended on June 8, 1998. From September 1998 to December 2000 he was vice-chairman of the MSZP parliamentary group .

From April 18, 2003 to July 19, 2004 he was also a member of the European Parliament , where he was a member of the Group of the Party of European Socialists . During this time he was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs from May 3 to July 19, 2004.

In October 2006, Vastagh resigned his parliamentary mandate after receiving his accreditation as Ambassador to Canada. He held this post until 2010.

Since 2010 Vastagh has been the rector of the School of Management (Általános Vállalkozási Főiskola) in Budapest, which was founded in 1995 .

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SURNAME Vastagh, Pál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament, MEP, lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagyszénás , Békés county