Education
Eötvös Loránd University.
Eötvös Loránd University.
Farkas learned politology at the faculty of the Law at the Eötvös Loránd University between 2001 and 2005. He acquired a university degree in politology there in 2005 and since then he has been a part-time teacher in the university. He has taken an active part in Roma public life since 1983.
He became secretary of the National Gypsy Council (OCÖ) in 1987, and secretary general, then president of Lungo Drom Roma Advocacy Alliance.
From 1995 to 1999, he was chairman of the National Gypsy Minority Council, then from 1999 to 2002 chairman of the National Gypsy Council. On 27 March 2003, he established a new organization, the National Association of Roma Councils by uniting thirty regional Roma organisations as well as nine hundred branches of the Lungo Drom.
He was elected chairman of the federal board of the organization. Since May he has been participating in the work of the Committee on Human Rights, Minority and Religion as well as the Committee on European Integration.
He has held the post of deputy parliamentary group leader since 15 May 2004.
He was elected Member of Parliament from the national list in the 2006 elections. Four years later he became Member of Parliament from the Budapest Regional List. He was appointed Ministerial Commissioner for the Romani Affairs by Minister of Justice Tibor Navracsics on 1 July 2010.
In February 2011, the OCÖ adopted a new statute and renamed to National Roma Council (ORÖ).
He was among the signatories of the electoral agreement of 21 December 2001 concluded by the Fidesz, the Hungarian Democratic Forum (Magyar Demokrata Forum (Hungarian Democratic Forum)) and Lungo Drom National Roma Advocacy and Civil Alliance. He secured a seat in the Parliament in the 2002 general elections as a candidate on the Fidesz National List.
He is a member of the National Assembly (Member of Parliament) since 2002. He worked as a social worker for Roma families for the local council of Szolnok and was a member of the Roma Coordination Committee of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County from 1985. He was elected member of the Szolnok Assembly in the local elections in the autumn of 2002.