Career
He served as the Mayor of Monor between 1998 and 2014. In the national election of 1998 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Monor (Constituency VII, Pest County). He was elected Mayor of Monor for the first time in 1998.
In the general election in 2002 he was elected an Member of Parliament from the party"s the Pest County Regional List.
Since the middle of May he had been working in the Police Committee. He was re-elected as Mayor of Monor on October 20, 2002.
He lost his parliamentary seat during the parliamentary election in 2006, however he was able to hold his mayoral seat in October 2006. He was elected Member of Parliament for Monor in the 2010 parliamentary election for the second time.
Following the 2014 parliamentary election, Pogácsás was one of the recorders of the National assembly for a short time, between May and June 2014.
He was appointed Secretary of State for Local Government on June 15, 2014.