György Czerván

György Czerván (born July 12, 1959)^[1] is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Nagykáta (Pest County Constituency VI then IX) since 1998.^[2] He was a member of the Committee on Agriculture from December 12, 1998 to May 13, 2010.^[2]

He was appointed Secretary of State for Rural Development in the second Cabinet of Viktor Orbán on June 2, 2010.^[2]

Career

Czerván ran in the parliamentary elections of 1990 as a candidate of the Agrarian Alliance. In the summer of 1990 he founded the Tápiószentmárton branch of Fidesz, of which he was president until 1994. He was elected local representative in the October 1990 local elections, and was appointed Deputy Mayor of Tápiószentmárton.^[1] He retained his positions in local government until 2002. In the parliamentary elections of May 1994 he was again unsuccessful.^[2] He was, however, elected as a member of the Pest County General Assembly in the local elections in December, where he is active as deputy chairman of the Agricultural Committee.

In the 1998 general elections he secured a seat as MP for Nagykáta (Constituency 6, Pest County). He was on the Agricultural Committee. He managed to keep his seat in the parliamentary elections on 21 April 2002 as an individual candidate, and continued his legislative work in the Agricultural Committee.^[2] On 20 October 2002 he was elected to the body of representatives of Tápiószentmárton for the fourth time.^[1] Since the transformation in 2003-2004 he has been chairman of Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance in the Nagykáta constituency.^[1]

He secured a seat in Parliament in the 2006 and 2010 general elections from Pest County 6th constituency.^[2]

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