Background
Király was born in Kiskunfélegyháza on May 23, 1948.
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Education
He finished his primary and secondary studies in Kecskemét. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the József Attila University in 1971. He studied pedagogy in the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College (today part of the University of Szeged) between 1975 and 1979.
Career
He served as a responsible for culture in the Bács-Kiskun County Committee of the Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) between 1971 and 1978. He edited the Petőfi Népe between 1973 and 1975 and the Szolnok studio of the Magyar Rádió from 1975 to 1978. He also worked for the Magyar Televízió.
He joined the New March Front, an oppositional group, in 1988, as a result he was expelled from the state party along with his three colleagues.
However he left the Magyar Demokrata Forum (Hungarian Democratic Forum) parliamentary group four weeks later and became an Independent Member of Parliament until the end of the parliamentary term. He joined the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) in 1990.
He served as managing director of the HT Press in 1991. He functioned as President of the MSZDP between 1993 and 1994.
In 2014, Király ran as a Politics Can Be Different (LMP) candidate of local representative in Újbuda for the 2014 municipal election.
Politics
He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers" Party (MSZMP) between 1974 and 1988.
Membership
He became a member of the National Assembly in 1985 when he defeated as a spontaneous candidate the party secretary of Csongrád County. During the first democratic parliamentary election in 1990, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Szeged as a member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (Magyar Demokrata Forum (Hungarian Democratic Forum)). He was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1990 and from 1992 to 1994.
He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialiste Munkaspart (Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party)) from 1997 to 2001.
