György Droppa
| György Droppa | |
|---|---|
| President of ZA, ZDSZ and ZB parties | |
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In office 5 June 1993 – 30 May 2010 |
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| Succeeded by |
Gáspár Miklós Tamás (President of ZB) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 September 1947 Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party |
SZDSZ (1989) MZP (1989–1993) ZA (1993–2000) ZDSZ (2000–2009) ZB (2009– ) |
| Other political affiliations |
EMU (1997–1998) Centrum (2001–2004) |
| Profession | environmentalist, politician |
György Droppa (born 17 September 1947) is a Hungarian environmentalist, politician and economist, who served as leader of several extra-parliamentary green political parties since the 1990s.
After finishing university studies, Droppa started his career in the catering industry, working for Panonnia, Danubius and Olimpia hotels. In 1982, he opened his first own restaurant (Fondue Bar) at the Keleti Károly St. which became a popular meeting place among the "democratic opposition" members who criticized the Communist regime. Droppa has enabled to extension of samizdat publications in his restaurant. By 1988, he established further three catering units (Katlan Club, Virányos Club and Jókai Club), where several opposition events and rallies took place. During the transition process, he was a founding member of the re-established Hungarian Catering Corporation.
In June 2009, the 1956 Institute claimed Droppa, as a member of the opposition party SZDSZ, was one of the state authority's 181 informer agents at the reburial of Imre Nagy and his martyr companions on 16 June 1989. Droppa rejected the accusation and expressed the possibility of a lawsuit. Later János M. Rainer, head of the institute backtracked from their standpoint and stated "there is no evidence that the state security organs did indeed looking for him and Droppa handed over reports."
Droppa was one of the founders of the Duna Kör in 1984, which established as a protest body to prevent the construction of the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams. In 1990, he became chargé d'affaires of the organization. He joined the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) for a short time in 1989. In November 1989, he participated in the foundation of the Green Party of Hungary (MZP). Following the radical right-wing ideological turnout within the party by 1993, Droppa and several other environmentalist members decided to quit the party to establish the Green Alternative (ZA), with election of Droppa and Erzsébet Schmuck as its co-leaders. However the new party was unsuccessful at the 1994 parliamentary election, receiving only 0.02 percent of the votes.
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