Jenő Manninger (born 30 July 1955) is a Hungarian architect and politician,

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(MP) for

Keszthely Keszthely (; also known by alternative names) is a Hungarian city of 20,895 inhabitants located on the western shore of Lake Balaton. It is the second largest city by the lake and one of the more important cultural, educational and economic hub ...

(

Zala County Zala (, ; ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') in south-western Hungary. It is named after the Zala River. It shares borders with Croatia (Koprivnica–Križevci County, Koprivnica–Križevci and Me� ...

Constituency III then II) from 2002 to 2022. He served as Parliamentary Secretary for Transport, Communications and Water Management from 1998 to 2002. He was the President of the General Assembly of Zala County from 2006 to 2014.

Biography

Jenő Manninger was born into a family of medical intellectuals. His father was emergency surgeon Jenő Manninger, Sr. He is related to Keszthely because his uncle, Gusztáv Adolf Manninger was a head of department of Georgikon in Keszthely. He graduated as a civil engineer of transport construction from

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in 1980. He also holds a degree from a postgraduate management joint course of

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and

Budapest University of Economic Sciences Corvinus University of Budapest () is a private research university in Budapest, Hungary. The university currently has an enrolment of approximately 9,600 students, with a primary focus on business administration, economics, and social sciences, ...

. From 1980 he worked as a civil engineer and design engineer. He also worked abroad, in

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and

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. He was a lecturer of Ybl Miklós College of Construction from 1987 to 1997 teaching courses in civil engineering and municipal finance. He was awarded a three-month grant of the National Foundation in the

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in 1992. Manninger started his public life career in the

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in 1990. For the following term, 1994 to 1998, he was the group leader of the

Hungarian Democratic Forum The Hungarian Democratic Forum (, , MDF) was a centre-right political party in Hungary. It had a Hungarian nationalist, national-conservative, Christian-democratic ideology. The party was represented continuously in the National Assembly from t ...

(MDF). Upon a request he was the political parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Water Management between 14 July 1998 and 26 May 2002, in the

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. As a follower of the idea of deeper party cooperation he joined

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in 2000. In the 2002 national election he was elected MP for Keszthely as a joint candidate of Fidesz–MDF. He has been living in Keszthely and then in Gyenesdiás and Balatongyörök since January 2002. He was one of the Hungarian observers delegated to the

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and worked for the Environment Committee in 2003. He was one of the delegated members to the European Parliament for a brief time in 2004 too. He was the spokesman of Fidesz related to transport programme issues during the elections. In the parliamentary elections of 2006 he defended his seat in the first round. He was a member of the Committee on European Affairs between 2006 and 2010. He was also elected President of the General Assembly of Zala County in October 2006. He was also elected MP for Keszthely in the 2010 parliamentary election. He became a member of the Economic and Information Technology Committee. Manninger was the president of the Regional Development Council from 2010 to 2011. He was re-elected MP for Keszthely in

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and

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too. He was a vice-chairman of the Economic Committee from 2015 to 2022. He was also a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development from 2014 to 2022. Manninger was appointed ministerial commissioner for the development of Zala County in June 2015. He had been the president of the electoral board of Fidesz in Zala County since October 2015. Manninger retired from politics and did not participate in the

2022 Hungarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 3 April 2022 to elect the National Assembly, coinciding with a referendum. Hungary's incumbent prime minister Viktor Orbán won re-election to a fourth term. Addressing his supporters after the pa ...

, citing advanced age and health reasons. He was replaced as Fidesz candidate by Bálint Nagy, the mayor of Keszthely, who ultimately gained the parliamentary seat. Manninger was elected mayor of Keszthely during the by-election on 26 June 2022, as sole candidate for the position.

Personal life

He is married. His wife is Éva Nagy. He has two sons, Máté and Ádám.Manninger Jenő - Önéletrajz
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