Ferenc Gyurcsány
Ferenc Gyurcsány [ fɛrɛnʦ ɟurʧa ː ɲ ] listen? / I ( born June 4, 1961 in Papa ) is a Hungarian businessman and politician. He was from September 2004 to April 2009 Prime Minister of Hungary and from 2007 to April 2009, Chairman of the MSZP.
Life
Youth and Education
Gyurcsány studied at the University of Pécs ( Pécs ) pedagogy and economics. He was from 1983 to 1988, the secretary of the youth wing of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( Communist Youth League, Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség - KISZ ) of Pécs. 1988-89 he was president of the university or the University Council of KISZ. In 1989 he was short time the secretary of the Central Council of KISZ.
Private sector
After the turn, he moved into the private sector and worked initially employed in various financial firms. In 1992 he founded a company themselves Altus AG, which developed into one of the largest in Hungary. The investment firm has a market value of 3.5 billion forints ( € 14.5 million). He led his company to 2002 Thereafter he became chief of the Supervisory Board (until 2003). He also operates a bauxite processing plant and is the owner of several properties, including the Budapest clubs of Members of Parliament and the former resort of the Hungarian government in Balatonőszöd Lake Balaton. The acquisition of these originally standing state-owned property is highly controversial because of the relatively low, partly paid in long-term hire purchase prices.
Political rise
Gyurcsány was a member of the Socialist Party of Hungary (Magyar Szocialista PART - MSZP ). In 2003 he was elected to the Committee of the Party. In 2004 he was elected President of the Party organization in Győr- Moson -Sopron.
He was considered one of the former leaders Péter Medgyessy 's closest collaborators. He was the main strategic advisor Medgyessys 2002. After the first reshuffle Medgyessys in 2003, he became Minister for Children, Youth and Sport. In September 2004, he Medgyessy withdrew his confidence. Then he announced his resignation as Prime Minister. End of August 2004 broke up the Medgyessy government - possibly under pressure from the Cabinet. The party was allowed to choose between two potential successors: Gyurcsány and Péter Kiss, deputy Medgyessys. The party elected by a large majority Gyurcsány, which led to rumors justified, Gyurcsány himself had originally stood in the background and Medgyessy helped to overthrow, to come to power itself.
He was sworn in on September 28. The members of the first Gyurcsány government submitted on October 4, from their oath of office. Gyurcsány was in the sequence from the post of party leader of Győr- Moson -Sopron.
After the elections of April 2006, the Gyurcsány government was confirmed as the first Hungarian government after the turn in office. Together with its coalition partner SZDSZ she came to a share of almost 53 % of the votes cast.
On 17 September 2006, the speech of 26 May, 2006 Balatonőszöd of a closed meeting of the MSZP Group has been published. Gyurcsány has condemned in this speech the government work with coarse expressions sharp. Following the publication of speech there were demonstrations against the government for months. The opposition parties have demanded the resignation of Gyurcsány. The fraction of Fidesz and KDNP treated Gyurcsány as " illegitimate ," during his appearance before Parliament their elected representatives left the meeting.
He was elected to the Congress of the MSZP on 24 February 2007, 89 % of the vote for party leader.
Gyurcsány was elected on 21 March 2009, 85 % of the vote again for party chairman. His renunciation of office he has declared a week later. On 23 March 2009 Gyurcsány announced his resignation from the post of prime minister.
Resignation and allegations of corruption
On 14 April 2009 he left through a project initiated by himself and his own party vote of no confidence from the post of Prime Minister of Hungary. In the parliamentary elections in Hungary 2010 by then opposition conservative Christian coalition of Fidesz and Christian Democratic People's Party ( KDNP ) scored a landslide victory. Gyurcsány then moved on 4 list position of the MSZP as a regular delegate to the newly elected Hungarian parliament.
12 September 2011 it withdrew the Hungarian Parliament immunity. Background were the events surrounding the affair Sukoro. Gyurcsány is said to have had an influence on an exchange of land between an American- German -Israeli investor group led by Yoav Blum and the Hungarian state, in which, due to incorrect estimates, Hungary suffered a loss of 1.3 billion forints.
Separation of the MSZP
On 22 October 2010 Gyurcsány founded an internal party platform called " Demokratikus Koalíció Platform" ( platform Democratic Coalition ). The target of the group he gave to an internal renewal of the party and came so soon in loggerheads with the party leadership under Attila Mesterházy. The lasting several months, conflicts eventually led to the break: On October 22, 2011 gave Gyurcsány and nine other mandatories their resignation from the party and from the Group of Socialists known. An already months earlier registered under the name " Democratic Party " lineup has now been renamed Demokratikus Koalíció (DK) and is now Gyurcsány's new political home.
Private
Gyurcsány is married his third wife Klára Dobrev with, the granddaughter of Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party of the Kádár era, Antal Apró, for the "order" made after 1956 as a confidant of Kádár in Hungary. He has four children from second and third marriage.
Gyurcsány received as a teenager by his Russian teacher the joke name " Fleto Fletonowitsch Yemelyan " - comes from here in Hungary be very well-known nickname " Fletó ".