Gábor Ivády
| Gábor Ivády | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 14 May 2010 |
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| Mayor of Ivád | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 20 October 2002 |
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| Preceded by | István Forgó |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 July 1973 Körmend, Hungary |
| Political party | Fidesz, LMP |
| Profession | politician |
Gábor Ivády (born 15 July 1973) is a Hungarian politician and has been member of the National Assembly (MP) since 2010.
Biography
He was born in Körmend and raised in Pápa. He attended military college then he worked in advertising. He moved to Ivád, Heves County in 2001 whence his ancestors came from. He was elected mayor of the municipality in 2002. He degree in political science faculty. He became nationally famous for humorous and special fundraising promotions for Ivád. Not without humor and self-critical writings can be read on his blog.
He served as constituency chairman of the Fidesz for a year between 2004 and 2005. He resigned from this position and left the party. He was a candidate of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) in the 2006 parliamentary election. Later he was a founding member of the Politics Can Be Different (LMP) social initiative which later was transformed into a party. He became a member of the 13-member leadership board. During the 2009 European elections in Hungary he received second place in the LMP-HP joint list. In the 2010 parliamentary election he was a candidate of the 5th Constituency of Heves County. He became a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from the party's national list.
In the 2010 local elections he won the mayoral election in Ivád and became mayor again. He was the only mayor from the LMP in the country.[1] However he left the party on 21 October 2010.[2][3]
References
- ^ Egy LMP-s polgármester már biztosan lesz Origo, 2010. október 3.
- ^ Ivády otthagyja az LMP-t Figyelőnet, 2010. október 20.
- ^ Otthagyja a pártot az LMP egyetlen polgármestere Hírszerző, 2010. október 20.
External links
- Országgyűlés biography (Hungarian)
- Gábor Ivády's blog (Hungarian)
