Education
Karakó graduated from public administration organisation at the College of Public Administration in 1986.
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Laszlo Karako
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Karakó was the Chairman of the Council then Mayor of Gávavencsellő from 1988 to 2010. He acquired a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc in 1996. He headed the local Council of Gávavencsellő between 1988 and 1990.
From 1992 to 2000 he was the leader of the local soccer club
Since 1990 he has been the president of the firemen"s association. Since 1998 he has presided over the Regional Development Association of the Upper Dada.
From 1998 until 2000 he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sóstó Development Corporation. He ran in the parliamentary elections in the Spring of 1990.
He was elected into the County Assembly at all the three elections, on each occasion he was deputy chairman of the body of representatives.
On 21 April 2002 he was elected Member of Parliament for Tiszavasvári constituency (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County III). He had been active in the Committee on Human Rights, Minorities and Religion since May of the same year. In the 2002 local elections he was re-elected mayor, representative and vice president of the County Assembly for the fourth time.
He was elected to the National Assembly in 2010.
He was the Chairman of the Subcommittee for investigating the government measures in the past 8 years (between 2002 and 2010). He lost his mayoral seat in the 2010 local elections.
Politics
He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers" Party (MSZMP) between 1984 until 1989. He was elected mayor of Gávavencsellő in the local elections in 1990, 1994, and 1998, in the latter case supported by Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Party (Fiatal Demokratâk Szovetsége (Federation of Young Democrats)-Master in Public Policy), the Independent Smallholders" Party (FKGP), the Hungarian Christian-Democratic Alliance (MKDSZ) and the Entrepreneurs" Party. In 2001 he joined Fidesz, where he presided over the Gávavencsellő branch.
Membership
Formerly he also served as Member of Parliament for Tiszavasvári between 2002 and 2006. In 2000 he was member of the Regional Development Council of the North-Plains, and since the same year he has been on the Board of Trustees of the Doctor József Zilahy Public Foundation. He is a member of the Committee on Employment and Labour.
