Péter Vörös

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Péter Vörös (born April 3, 1966 - April 11, 2020 ) was a Slovak historian and politician .

Life

Vörös grew up in Gbelce and graduated from high school in Komárno . He then completed his studies in the humanities department of the Comenius University in Bratislava , which he graduated in 1993 with a diploma in Hungarian history.

He took an active part in the events of regime change in 1989, headed the Attila József youth club and was one of the founders of the Diákhálózat student network . From its inception, he was a member of the Independent Hungarian Initiative ( Független Magyar Kezdeményezés ) and then became Vice President of the Hungarian Citizens' Party ( Magyar Polgári Párt ).

After the founding of the Hungarian coalition party in 1998, Vörös was elected central secretary of the party at the suggestion of party chairman Béla Bugár and held this position until 2007. When differences arose with the new leadership of the party in 2009, Béla Bugár, Gábor Gál, Tibor Bastrnák, László Gyurovszky, Zsolt Simon and Elemér Jakab left the party and founded the Most-Híd party together with Péter Vörös . After the successful performance of the party in the National Council election in Slovakia in 2010 , he became a member of parliament. After the end of the Radičová government , he left parliament. When József Nagy became a member of the European Parliament for the Most-Híd party through the elections to the European Parliament in 2014 , Vörös returned to the Slovak parliament as his successor. For a long time he had called for the Hungarian parties in Slovakia to work together and run on a list in elections and was convinced that this was the only way they could be successful. When it finally became clear in October 2019 that there would be no uniform Hungarian list for the 2020 National Council elections in Slovakia , he decided not to stand for the election anymore. His term of office as a member of the Slovak Parliament ended in February 2020.

One focus of his political work was education policy. His name is associated with the amendment to the law to save Hungarian small schools in Slovakia, which was passed by parliament in 2016 with a constitutional majority. He persistently campaigned for the strengthening of the financial situation of the Hungarian schools and was able to push through the introduction of a higher number of employees for Hungarian schools in Slovakia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elhunyt Vörös Péter, a Híd korábbi parlamenti képviselője. Új Szó, April 11, 2020, accessed on April 12, 2020 (Hungarian).

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personal data
SURNAME Vörös, Péter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1966
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2020