Gyula Molnár, who was the mayor of Újbuda between 2002 and 2010 and then the president of the MSZP between 2016 and 2018, is running in Újbuda as a candidate of the Democratic Coalition in the primary election. If he wins in the primary election and in 2022, he plans to join the DK faction, ATV .
The agreement between Gyula Molnár and the Democratic Coalition was announced on Saturday morning at the press conference held on Fehérvár út. If Gyula Molnár is elected in 2022, he wants to take a seat in the faction of the Democratic Coalition.
Gyula Molnár has been present in politics since the regime change, in 1990 he became deputy mayor of Újbuda and then a member of the Capital Assembly. From 1994 to 2010, he was a member of the National Assembly continuously with his mandate in the 16th electoral district of Budapest. In 2002, he was elected to the XI. district mayor, which position he held until 2010, while also acting as president of the National Association of Local Governments.
At that time, a public prosecutor's investigation was launched against him, and he was acquitted of the charge of abuse of office only in 2014 by the Kúria. In 2016, he won the post of president of the MSZP against József Tóbiás, Tibor Szanyi and Tamás Harangozó, and in 2018 he returned to the Parliament after winning an individual representative mandate in the 18th electoral district of Budapest (which includes Budafok-Tétény and part of Újbuda). earned Later, due to the poor results of the MSZP, he resigned from the position of party president. If Gyula Molnár wins in 2022, he plans to join the DK faction after today's announcement.
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