Máté Kocsis
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 14 May 2010 – 5 May 2014 |
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Mayor of Józsefváros District VIII, Budapest |
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Assumed office 22 November 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Béla Csécsei |
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6 May 1981 Budapest, Hungary |
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MIÉP (1998–1999) Fidesz (since 2006) |
| Spouse(s) | dr Szilvia Márkus |
| Children | Kristóf |
| Profession | jurist, politician |
Máté Kocsis (born May 6, 1981) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, current Mayor of Józsefváros (8th district of Budapest) since 2009. He also represented Józsefváros (Budapest Constituency XI) in the National Assembly of Hungary between 2010 and 2014.
He graduated from the Calvinist Secondary Grammar School of Lónyay Street in 1999. He received his Juris Doctor degree at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2004. He participated in the joint graduate school of the Századvég Political School and the Corvinus University of Budapest as a policy expert between 2004 and 2006.
He was a member of the far-right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) between 1998 and 1999. According to himself, his membership lasted 2 or 3 months.
Kocsis was delegated to the Budapest Electoral Commission by the Fidesz during the 2006 Hungarian parliamentary election. He was elected to the General Assembly of Józsefváros in the 2006 Hungarian local elections. He served as a Deputy Mayor of Józsefváros and leader of the Fidesz group from 2006 to 2009. He also became a member of the General Assembly of Budapest in 2006. He served as Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Committee on Law and Procedure.Béla Csécsei, the Mayor of Józsefváros, resigned from his position for health reasons in 2009. Kocsis was elected mayor during a by-election on November 22, 2009. As a result he resigned from his seat in the General Assembly of Budapest.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Józsefváros in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election. He was appointed Chairman of the Defence and Internal Security Committee on May 17, 2010. He was also a member of the Committee on National Security since February 14, 2011. He was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Preparation of Constitution between July 5, 2010 and March 7, 2011, therefore he participated in the drawing up of the new constitution. In May 2011, Fidesz called for a fact-finding committee to be set up, examining the circumstances of tension between local Roma and non-Roma in the north Hungarian village of Gyöngyöspata. Kocsis became Chairman of that ad hoc committee.
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