Mátyás Szűrös

Mátyás Szurös [ ma ː ca sy ː ʃ ː røʃ ] ( born September 11, 1933 Püspökladány, Hungary) is a Hungarian politician and former president.

Diplomatic Studies and career

After studying International Relations in Moscow from 1953 to 1959 Szurös joined the diplomatic service. From 1962 to 1965 he was a staff member at the Embassy in the GDR. He then spent ten years an employee of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ( USAP ).

1975-1978 was Szurös Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic and then to 1982, ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Political career and first president of the Republic of Hungary

Szurös in 1982 Secretary of the Central Committee of the USAP for International Relations. He represented from 1985 to 2002, the USAP as a deputy in the National Assembly, but later voted as such, often against the wishes of his group. Mátyás Szurös was elected President of the National Assembly ( Országgyűlés ) on 10 March 1989. This office he kept until May 2, 1990.

After the dissolution of the People's Republic of Hungary and the founding of the Republic of Hungary on 23 October 1989, he was also elected the first president of the newly founded Republic. May 2, 1990 Árpád Göncz followed him in this office.

Then Szurös was until 1994 Vice- President of the National Assembly. 1989 and 1994 to 2002 he was chairman of the Hungarian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU).

He left in 2002, the USAP and joined the New Left Party, for which he was a candidate for the office of Prime Minister. However, the party won only 0.1 percent of the vote. In 2003, he joined then in the Social Democratic Party, which elected him a short time later as its chairman. For the European elections on 27 May 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament. 2005 resigned Mátyás Szurös of this office.

Source

  • List of candidates for the 2004 European elections

Mátyás Szurös (1989-1990) | Árpád Göncz (1990 ) | Szabad György (1990-1994 ) | Zoltán Gál (1994-1998 ) | János Áder (1998-2002 ) | Katalin Szili ( 2002-2009 ) | Béla Katona (2009 -2010 ) | Pál Schmitt ( 2010) | László Kövér (since 2010)

Count Mihály Károlyi | Sándor Garbai | Miklós Horthy ( Regent ) | Ferenc Szálasi ( Leader of the Nation) | Zoltán Tildy | Árpád Szakasits | Sandor Ronai | István Dobi | Pál Losonczi | Károly Németh | Brúnó Straub | Mátyás Szurös | Árpád Göncz | Ferenc Mádl | Laszlo Solyom | Pál Schmitt | János Áder

  • Parliament President
  • President (Hungary )
  • Hungarian Ambassador
  • Hungarian
  • Born in 1933
  • Man
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