Gábor Ivády (born 15 July 1973) was a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014. He seated as an independent MP.

Biography

He was born in

Körmend Körmend ( Prekmurje Slovene: ''Karmadén,'' ) is a town in Vas County, Western Hungary. Places of interest The town is especially well known for its castle which used to belong to the Batthyány family, one of the most important aristocrat famili ...

and raised in Pápa. He attended military college then he worked in

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. He moved to Ivád,

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

in 2001 whence his ancestors came from. He was elected deputy-mayor of the municipality in 2002. He degree in political science faculty. He served as constituency chairman of the

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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

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(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

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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. However he left the party on 21 October 2010. Ivády became a member of the Community for Social Justice People's Party (KTI) in 2013. KTI did not reach the election threshold in the 2014 parliamentary election. In the 2014 local elections he lost the mayoral election in Ivád and established a labour union KFDSZ.

References

External links

Országgyűlés biography

Gábor Ivády's blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivady, Gabor 1973 births Living people People from Körmend Fidesz politicians LMP – Hungary's Green Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014)