Tibor Bana | |
|---|---|
 Tibor Bana in 2018 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 14 May 2010 –1 May 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 December 1985 Körmend, Hungary |
| Political party | MIÉP (2004–2006) Jobbik (2007–2020) |
| Profession | economist, political scientist, politician |
Tibor Bana (born 1 December 1985) is a Hungarian economist, political scientist and politician, who was the member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2010 and 2022, sitting as a Jobbik politician until 2020, then as a non-partisan.
Tibor Bana was born in Körmend on 1 December 1985. [1] He is Calvinist. He was elected presbyter of the local Calvinist parish in Szentgotthárd in 2012 and was re-elected in 2017. [1]
He finished his secondary studies at the Nagy Lajos Secondary Grammar School in Szombathely in 2004. He earned a degree in political science and economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2009. Currently, he attends Doctoral School of Demography and Sociology, University of Pécs. [1]
Bana was a member of the youth organization of the far-right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) between 2004 and 2006. He presided the organization from 2005 until his quit from the party in the autumn of 2006. He joined Jobbik in early 2007 and participated in the establishment of its local branch in Vas County. He was elected president of the Vas County branch of Jobbik in 2008. He was a domestic assistant of MEP Zoltán Balczó from 2009 to 2010. He was re-elected in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. He was elected one of the vice-presidents of the party in May 2018. He held the position until January 2020. He was elected president of the Vas County branch again in February 2020. [1]
Bana ran as candidate for MP for Körmend (Vas County 5th constituency) in the 2010 parliamentary election. Ha came to the second place (15.6 percent) after Fidesz candidate and winner Zsolt V. Németh. [1] Nevertheless, Bana was elected MP via the national list of the Jobbik. As he was one of the youngest MPs for years, he acted as a senior recorder during the inaugural plenary sessions either in 2010, 2014 and 2018. [2] Bana was again the candidate of his party in Körmend (Vas County 3rd constituency) in the 2014 parliamentary election, but Zsolt V. Németh defended his mandate and Bana came to the second place with 22.02 percent. [1] Bana obtained a mandate from the national list of the Jobbik. [2] Bana unsuccessfully contested for Körmend constituency for the third time in the 2018 parliamentary election, where Zsolt V. Németh was re-elected. Bana received 26.81 percent of the vote. [1] He became MP via the national list of the Jobbik. [2] Bana has been a member of the Committee on European Affairs since 2010. He served as vice-chairman of the committee from 2014 to 2020. He was also a member, then vice-chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Innovation and Development between 2011 and 2014. [2]
Disagreeing with the direction and methods of the new party leadership led by Péter Jakab, who was elected president of Jobbik in January 2020, Bana announced his quit from Jobbik and its parliamentary group on 2 March 2020. He said, "he wanted the party to operate as a center-right, civic and European force, instead nihilism, populism and internal showdown came under the leadership of Péter Jakab and Márton Gyöngyösi, which is completely unacceptable". [3] Bana retained his parliamentary seat, sitting as an independent MP, until the end of the parliamentary term in 2022. [2] He founded the civil organization Association for Vas County in June 2020. [1] He participated in the 2021 opposition primary as a candidate of the Everybody's Hungary Movement (MMM) in Körmend constituency. He defeated Momentum candidate Dániel Pleva, consequently he became the joint opposition candidate of United for Hungary against the ruling party Fidesz in the 2022 parliamentary election. In case of victory, Bana decided to will join the caucus of the LMP – Hungary's Green Party. [4] In the 2022 parliamentary election, Bana was defeated by Fidesz candidate Zsolt V. Németh, and because he was not on national list of opposition alliance this time, he left parliament after 12 years. [5]
Katalin Szili is a Hungarian politician and jurist, a former Member of the National Assembly, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2009.
Sándor Fazekas is a Hungarian jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Rural Development, then Minister of Agriculture from 2010 to 2018, in the second and third cabinets of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. He served as mayor of his hometown, Karcag between 1990 and 2010.
István Géza Bebes is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Vas County Regional List between 1998 and 2014. He is the Mayor of Körmend since 2002.
György Czerván is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Nagykáta since 1998. He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture from 12 December 1998 to 13 May 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.
Zsolt V. Németh is a Hungarian land surveyor and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Körmend since 1998. He also served as mayor of Vasvár twice: between 1990 and 1994, and from 1998 to 2010. He was state secretary in the second and third Orbán governments from 2010 to 2018.
Dr. Bernadett Szél is a Hungarian economist and politician, and was a member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2012 and 2022. She was co-President of the Politics Can Be Different party from 2013 to 2018, and its candidate for the position of Prime Minister during the 2018 parliamentary election. Following internal conflicts, she resigned as co-chair in August 2018, and subsequently also left the party in October 2018.
Tamás Básthy is a Hungarian agronomist and politician, who served as mayor of Kőszeg between 1990 and 2002. He was elected member of the National Assembly (MP) for Kőszeg in the 1998 parliamentary election.
Szabolcs Szabó is a geographer and politician, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Csepel–Soroksár since 2014.
Hungarian local elections were held in Hungary on 13 October 2019. Mayors and assembly members were elected for a term of 5 years.
Péter Jakab is a Hungarian politician, President of Jobbik and member of the National Assembly. Since June 2019 he has been the Parliamentary group leader of Jobbik. He was the Deputy Parliamentary Group Leader of Jobbik from February to June in 2019. He was elected Member of Parliament in the 2018 parliamentary election. He was a Member of the House Committee on Legislation from 2018 to 2019 and he was the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Justice in 2019 in the National Assembly.
László György Lukács – Hungarian lawyer, politician, since 2014 member of Hungarian National Assembly, vice-president of Jobbik.
United for Hungary is a political alliance in Hungary that was formed to compete in the 2022 parliamentary election.
The Vas County Assembly is the local legislative body of Vas County in the Western Transdanubia, in Hungary.
Zsolt Egyed is an electronic technician and politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) from 2010 to 2018. He is a member of the Jobbik.
Gergely Farkas is a Hungarian politician, was a member of the National Assembly (MP) between 2010 and 2022, sitting as a Jobbik politician until 2020, then as a non-partisan. He served as the inaugural president of the Jobbik Young Section from 2013 to 2019.
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.