Pál Steiner

Pál Steiner (born 13 March 1953)[1] is a Hungarian politician, who served as the mayor of Belváros-Lipótváros (5th district of Budapest) from 2002 to 2006. He was elected member of the National Assembly (MP) from the Budapest Regional List of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in 2002, holding the seat until 2014.[2]

Pál Steiner
Pál Steiner in 2014
Mayor of Belváros-Lipótváros
District V, Budapest
In office
20 October 2002 – 1 October 2006
Preceded byKároly Karsai
Succeeded byAntal Rogán
Member of the National Assembly
In office
15 May 2002 – 5 May 2014
Personal details
Born (1953-03-13) March 13, 1953
Budapest, Hungary
Political partyMSZMP (1986–89)
MSZP (since 1989)
Professionjurist
The native form of this personal name is Steiner Pál. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Career

He is of Jewish origin.[3] He spent his childhood in Mezőkövesd and Ferencváros. After mechanical works in trade industry, he attended the Eötvös Loránd University, where earned a degree of jurist in 1986.[1]

Steiner joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1986, then became a founding a member of the Socialist Party in October 1989. He served as chairman of the party's national ethics committee between 1998 and 2004. Steiner became a Member of Parliament from his party's Budapest regional list during the 2002 parliamentary election. He was involved in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Justice. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2010 too from the MSZP regional list both times.[2]

He was elected mayor of the downtown of Budapest (5th district) in the 2002 local election. He held the office until the 2006 local elections. Then he became a member of the General Assembly of Budapest, where he functioned as leader of the MSZP caucus until 2010.[2] He was president of the Central Hungary Development Council between 2008 and 2010.[1]

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gollark: For example, the magic `select` thing, `make`/`new`, its horrible monotonic times hack...
gollark: It's actually complicated and relies heavily on magic like Python.
gollark: WRONG!
gollark: Generally, Go's attitude seems to be:- don't trust the programmer to do anything right but use magic all over the place internally- stop abstraction at all costs and make everything explicit- ignore all modern innovations in language design- bodge everything into being mostly right but not actually correct

References
  1. "Biography". steinerpal.hu. Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  2. "Register". Országgyűlés.
  3. "Steiner Pál a verbális agresszió veszélyeiről". Heti Világgazdaság. 26 November 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
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