István Balsai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

István Balsai

Hungarian jurist, member of Constitutional Court of Hungary

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: Miskolc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About István Balsai

  • István Ákos Balsai (born 5 April 1947) is a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1990 and 1994.
  • He joined to the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) in 1988 and became a member of the National Assembly of Hungary in 1990.
  • He was appointed justice minister in the first democratic Hungarian government.
  • During his term as minister the first democratic fundamental laws were made. He was a member of the leadership of the MDF in 1994 and between 1996-2003.
  • He served as chairman of the party's Committee of Ethics from 1996 to 2005.
  • He was the leader of the parliamentary group between 1998 and 2002.
  • He became a member of the Lakitelek working group which criticized the activity of the presidency and president Ibolya Dávid.
  • Later this group transformed as National Forum.
  • Balsai was excluded from the MDF in 2005. Balsai joined to the Fidesz parliamentary group after six months.
  • He was commissioned to examining the 2006 protests in Hungary by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in 2010.
  • Balsai said in the report dated 15 March 2011 that the investigation had also uncovered possible grounds for raising the charge of the perpetration of an act of terror.
  • The author said that it is necessary to investigate whether Gyurcsány should take political and legal responsibility for the police's behaviour.
  • "In the course of my investigation I came to the conclusion that October 23 [was] the symbol of the most grievous offenses … [and a symbol of] the Gyurcsány government's violent and paranoid exercise of power," Balsai wrote in the document. He was elected to a member of the Constitutional Court of Hungary in 2011.
  • As a result, he resigned from his parliamentary seat and other political positions.

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