Balázs Horváth

Balázs Horváth ( born August 13, 1942 in Budapest, † July 2, 2006 in Veszprém, Hungary) was a Hungarian politician.

Biography

After the completion of Lajos Lóczy High School in Balatonfüred, he studied from 1960 to 1965 at the Eotvos Lorand University of Political and Social Sciences and completed these studies with a diploma. After postgraduate studies in law at the University of Pannonia Veszprém he was in 1968 admitted to the lawyer.

Horváth 1988 belonged to the founding members of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (Magyar Fórum Demokrata, MDF).

After the political changes in Hungary in 1990, he was elected as a representative of the constituency Veszprém for Members of Parliament ( Országgyűlés ) and in May 1990 as Minister of the Interior in the first freely elected government under Prime Minister József Antall. Successor as minister of the interior was still in December 1990 Péter Boross. Later, however, he resigned from the MDF and was elected as an independent candidate in 1994 for the Members. In 2004 he founded the National Forum ( Nemzeti Fórum ) and then formed an electoral alliance with the Hungarian Civic Union ( Fidesz - Magyar Polgári Szövetség ).

In the parliamentary elections in April 2006, he was selected as a contestant on the common list with the FIDESZ again to MPs, but died just two months later.