Balázs Horváth Explained

Balázs Horváth
Order:Minister of the Interior of Hungary
Term Start:23 May 1990
Term End:21 December 1990
Predecessor:Zoltán Gál
Successor:Péter Boross
Birth Date:13 August 1942
Birth Place:Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Death Place:Veszprém, Hungary
Profession:politician
Party:MDF, National Forum

Balázs Horváth (13 August 1942, Budapest  - 2 July 2006) was an Interior minister of Hungary. He was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum.

He was a lawyer, a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1988,he was among the founders of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, in 1990 for several months served as interior minister in the government of József Antall. Later he left the Hungarian Democratic Forum, for a time was an independent MP, in 2004, he founded the National Forum with several representatives, which entered into a coalition with Fidesz block. On behalf of the Fidesz won a parliamentary mandate in April 2006, but died two months later. His nephew, Zsolt Horváth succeeded him in that position.

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