Career
He was the Minister of Local Government in cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai. He spent his student years in Miskolc, although he did his secondary school studies in Kazincbarcika, in a Chemical Industry Technical School. He obtained a chemical industry graduate engineer diploma at the Pollack Mihály Technological College in Pécs.
First he obtained a special engineer then an engineer-economist diploma.
In 1997 he left the glassworks in Orosháza as the works manager when he was elected to be the president of the Representative Body of Békés County. From 1998 he worked as a works manager of the industrial park in Orosháza when in the municipal elections he was elected to be the president of the general assembly in Békés County again.
Meanwhile until 1997 he was the leader of the parliamentary group of the Hungarian Socialist Party. He occupied this position between 1998 and 2002 as well.
During this time period he also worked as the president of the Economic Committee.
In 2006 and 2010 at the parliamentary elections he obtained a mandate on the regional list in Békés County. He has an oral intermediate language exam in English. In his free time he likes playing tennis and going on excursions.
