Imre Pesti

Last updated
Imre Pesti
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
16 May 2006
Personal details
Born (1952-09-16) 16 September 1952 (age 69)
Budapest, Hungary
Political party Fidesz
Other political
affiliations		 MDF
Professionphysician

Dr. Imre Pesti (born September 16, 1952) [1] is a Hungarian physician, politician, and member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz Budapest Regional List from 2006 to 2014, and his party's national list since 2014. [2] He served as Deputy Mayor of Budapest for Health and Social Affairs in 2010. [2]

Contents

Biography

Pesti grow up in the Galga valley in the village of Tura. He is married, with two children. He attended to the Piarist Secondary School in Budapest. After the secondary school final examinations he applied for continuing his studies at the Medical Science University of Szeged but during the entrance examination advised him to leave because of his religional belief. He gained entrance to the Semmelweis University three years later. He graduated as a M.D. from the Semmelweis University in 1980. He was working in Galgamácsa as a family doctor for eight years and later continued at the Cardiology Department of the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital. He acquired a special examination of internal medicine and cardiology. Before his university years and later as a medical student and as a doctor altogether he worked 17 years for the ambulance service. In 2003 he acquired degree from a two years course of special health manager course. Now he is leading a medical related business and often participates in international medicine researches. He is member of the Hungarian Cardiology Association. [1]

He was a founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) in 1988 in Gödöllő, but later he retired from political activity. In 2002 the newly established civic circles by Viktor Orbán called him to return to politics and he was elected head of the Civic Circle of Rákosmente (District XVII, Budapest). In the parliamentary election held in 2006, he was elected from the Budapest Regional List of the Fidesz party. He was appointed member of the Committee on Health Affairs on May 30, 2006. During the 2006 local elections, he was elected a member of the General Assembly of Budapest. [2]

Four years later, he defended his parliamentary mandate in the parliamentary election held in 2010. He was appointed Vice Chairman of the Committee on Health Affairs on May 14, 2010. After the local elections in October 2010, Mayor István Tarlós nominated him Deputy Mayor of Budapest for Health and Social Affairs. On January 1, 2011 Pesti became Director of the newly created Government Office of Budapest. As a result, due to incompatibility, he resigned from his deputy mayoral office and also replaced by Ildikó Bene as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Health on February 14, 2011. Pesti functioned as Director until 2014, when he was elected Member of Parliament again. He was replaced as director by István György. [2] He was a member of the Legislative Committee from 2014 to 2018 and Welfare Committee since 2018. [2]

Related Research Articles

István Balsai Hungarian jurist and politician (1947-2020)

István Ákos Balsai was a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1990 and 1994. He was a Member of Parliament from 1990 to 2011, when he was elected a member of the Constitutional Court of Hungary.

Dr. Chakib Pierre Daher is a Hungarian physician and politician of Lebanese descent, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Regional List from 2010 to 2014. He had been a member of the Committee on Health Affairs from 5 July 2010 to 5 May 2014 and Committee on Foreign Affairs between 28 February 2011 and 23 September 2013.

Mihály Babák Hungarian politician

Mihály Babák is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) between 1998 and 2014.

Péter Cseresnyés is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Zala County Regional List from 2002 to 2010. He represents Nagykanizsa since May 14, 2010.

István György Hungarian jurist and politician

Dr. István György is a Hungarian jurist and politician, who served as Mayor of Kőbánya between 1990 and 2002. He was Deputy Mayor of Budapest responsible for the urban management from 2010 to 2014. György was appointed Director of the Budapest Government Office on July 1, 2014, replacing Imre Pesti. He served in this capacity until January 2020, when he was appointed Secretary of State for Public Services. He was replaced as director by fellow Fidesz politician Botond Sára.

Zsolt Horváth is a Hungarian physician, dentist and politician, former member of the National Assembly (MP) for Kecskemét between 1998 and 2014. Horváth acquired offshore firms before and after leaving the National Assembly, per the 2016 Panama papers leak.

Prof. László Iván was a Hungarian psychiatrist, neurologist, geriatrician, academic and politician who was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Regional List from 2010 to 2014. He was also Member of Parliament from Fidesz National List between 2006 and 2010.

Ferenc Koncz was a Hungarian teacher and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Szerencs from 2010 to 2014, and for Tiszaújváros from 2018 until his death. He was also a Member of Parliament from the Fidesz Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County between 1998 and 2002, and from the party's National List from 2004 to 2006. He served as Mayor of Szerencs from 2010 to 2018.

Gábor Tamás Nagy Hungarian jurist and politician

Dr. Gábor Tamás Nagy is a Hungarian jurist and politician, who served as Mayor of Budavár from 1998 to 2019. Besides that he represented Budavár in the National Assembly of Hungary from 1998 to 2014. He was also Member of Parliament from the Budapest Regional List of Fidesz between 1993 and 1994, when he replaced Gábor Fodor.

István Nagy (politician, born 1967) Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician

István Nagy is a Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician who has served as Minister of Agriculture since 2018.

Balázs Hidvéghi Hungarian politician

Balázs Hidvéghi is a Hungarian politician, former Member of Parliament, and also the deputy director for Strategy of Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Union responsible for Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarian diaspora.

Andor Nagy Hungarian jurist and politician

Andor Nagy is a Hungarian jurist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Szécsény between 2004 and 2013. He was appointed Hungarian Ambassador to Israel in August 2013. He was accredited as Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to Austria on 19 September 2018.

Dr. Péter Szalay is a Hungarian physician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz Budapest Regional List between 2011 and 2014.

Dr. Imre Szakács is a Hungarian jurist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Győr from 1998 to 2014. He served as Parliamentary Secretary of State for Youth and Sport between January 1, 1999, and May 27, 2002.

Dr. István Tiba is a Hungarian dentist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Balmazújváros from 2002 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014. Currently he is MP for Hajdúböszörmény since 2014. He was also MP from the county regional list of Fidesz between 2008 and 2010. He was elected mayor of Balmazújváros during the local elections held in 2006, holding the office until 2014.

Erzsébet Lanczendorfer Hungarian physician and politician

Dr. Erzsébet Lanczendorfer is a Hungarian physician and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz–KDNP Győr-Moson-Sopron County Regional List between 2006 and 2014.

István Simicskó Hungarian politician

István Simicskó is a Hungarian politician of the governing Fidesz–KDNP coalition. He has been a Member of the National Assembly since 1998. He served as Minister of Defence from 10 September 2015 to 18 May 2018.

György Rubovszky was a Hungarian lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2002 and from 2003 until his death in 2017.

István Levente Garai was a Hungarian physician and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Kiskunfélegyháza from 1994 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2010. He was also a Member of Parliament from the Bács-Kiskun County regional list of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 2004 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014.

Gábor Staudt Hungarian politician

Gábor Staudt is a Hungarian jurist and politician of the right-wing Jobbik. He served as a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2019. He was the Jobbik's candidate for the position of mayor of Budapest in the 2010 and 2014 local elections.

References

  1. 1 2 "Biography" (PDF). Országgyűlés.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Register". Országgyűlés.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.