Péter Ákos Bod Explained

Péter Ákos Bod
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Order1:Governor of the Hungarian National Bank
Term Start1:9 December 1991
Term End1:14 December 1994
Predecessor1:György Surányi
Successor1:György Surányi
Order2:Minister of Industry and Trade
Term Start2:23 May 1990
Term End2:9 December 1991
Primeminister2:József Antall
Predecessor2:Ferenc Horváth (Industry)
Tamás Beck (Trade)
Successor2:Iván Szabó
Order4:Member of the National Assembly
Term Start4:2 May 1990
Term End4:9 December 1991
Birth Date:28 July 1951
Birth Place:Szigetvár, Hungary
Profession:politician, economist
Party:MDF (1989–1996)
MDNP (1996–2001)
Spouse:
    Children:Zsófia
    Péter
    Márton

    Péter Ákos Bod (born 28 July 1951) is a Hungarian politician and economist, who served as Minister of Industry and Trade in the cabinet of József Antall from 1990 to 1991 then Governor of the Hungarian National Bank from 1991 to 1994, when he resigned under the pressure of the Socialist Gyula Horn cabinet. He was also a Member of Parliament for the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) from 1990 until his resignation in 1991.[1] In 1996, he joined the Hungarian Democratic People's Party (MDNP) and was elected to its leadership.[2] Before the second round of the 2006 parliamentary election, when MDF made it clear that they would not support Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, Orbán tried to get their support by declaring that he withdrew from Prime Minister candidacy, and sought a compromise candidate, Péter Ákos Bod. However MDF maintains its position and Fidesz lost the election by the ruling left-wing coalition parties.[3]

    His ancestor was Péter Bod (1712–1769), a Transylvanian Calvinist pastor, historian, "the greatest Hungarian scientist in the late-Baroque decades."[4]

    Personal life

    He married Katalin Monostori in 1974. Their daughter, Zsófia was born in 1977. They divorced in 2006. He remarried in 2008 to Léda Szőnyi with whom he has two sons, Péter (born in 2009) and Márton (born in 2011).[5]

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    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Register . Országgyűlés.
    2. Bölöny, József – Hubai, László: Magyarország kormányai 1848–2004 [Cabinets of Hungary 1848–2004], Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004 (5th edition). p. 295.
    3. Web site: Orbán Bod Péter Ákost ajánlja. 12 April 2006. Index.hu. Hungarian. 30 January 2016.
    4. Sőtér, István (ed.): A magyar irodalom története, Vol. II,. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1964. p. 562.
    5. Magyarország sikeres személyiségei – British Publishing House, 2020 – Bod Péter Ákos