Tibor Déri (born 1985) is a Hungarian politician, who has been the Mayor of

Újpest Újpest (; , ) is the 4th District in Budapest, Hungary. It is located on the left bank of the Danube River. The name Újpest means "New Pest" because the city was formed on the border of the city of Pest, Hungary in 1838. Újpest was a village ...

(4th district of

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) since 2019.

Life and career

Tibor Déri was born in

Eger Eger ( , ; ; also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights, Eger is best known for Castle of Eger, its ...

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 ...

. He is married and has three children. He earned a degree of geography and environment high school teacher at the

University of Debrecen The University of Debrecen ( ) is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its establishment in 1538. The university has a well established progra ...

. He is also qualified as a renewable energy specialist. The topic of his thesis is the possible application of high-power

wind turbines A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each y ...

in Hungary. He worked for E.ON Hungária Ltd. as an environmental expert between 2009 and 2013. Thereafter, he was an EHS consultant at Denkstatt Hungary Ltd. until July 2019.

Political career

He entered into politics when joined

Momentum Movement Momentum Movement (, Momentum) is a centrist Hungarian political party founded in March 2017. It came to national prominence as a political association in January 2017 after organizing a petition about the Budapest bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics ...

as a "disappointed

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal. Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as ...

voter", according to himself. He unsuccessfully ran as his party's candidate of MP for

Hatvan Hatvan ( German: ''Hottwan)'' is a town in Heves County, Hungary. Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is the county's third most populous town following Eger and Gyöngyös. Etymology Hatvan is the Hungarian word for "sixty". It is a com ...

(Heves County Constituency III) during the 2018 parliamentary election. He was one of the organizers of the anti-government protests in Újpest in December 2018. As a local patriot, Tibor Déri initiated the opposition parties should nominee a joint candidate against mayor

Zsolt Wintermantel Zsolt Wintermantel (born 26 February 1972) is a Hungarian politician, who served as Mayor of Újpest (4th district of Budapest) from 2010 to 2019. Besides that he represented Újpest (Budapest Constituency VI) in the National Assembly of Hungary ...

(Fidesz) for the 2019 local elections. Déri, who became chair of the local Újpest branch of the Momentum Movement by then, supported the nomination of Botond Szalma, a former member of the Fidesz-ally Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), along with the other opposition parties. However, Szalma stepped down as joint mayoral candidate in March 2019, citing personal reasons. Thereafter, the opposition coalition nominated Tibor Déri instead of him. In the election, Déri defeated incumbent mayor Wintermantel, receiving 50.5 percent of the vote. On 19 October 2022 he announced his intention to switch to the Democratic Coalition's fraction in the Budapest General Assembly, thus leaving the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deri, Tibor 1985 births Living people University of Debrecen alumni Momentum Movement politicians Mayors of places in Hungary People from Eger Democratic Coalition (Hungary) politicians