Tibor Déri

Tibor Déri
Mayor of Újpest
District IV, Budapest
Incumbent
Assumed office
13 October 2019
Preceded byZsolt Wintermantel
Personal details
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Eger, Hungary
Political partyDemocratic Coalition (2022– ) Momentum (until 2022)
Children3
Professionpolitician
The native form of this personal name is Déri Tibor. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Tibor Déri (born 1985) is a Hungarian politician, who has been the Mayor of Újpest (4th district of Budapest) since 2019.

Life and career

Tibor Déri was born in Eger, Heves County. He is married and has three children.[1] He earned a degree of geography and environment high school teacher at the University of Debrecen. He is also qualified as a renewable energy specialist. The topic of his thesis is the possible application of high-power wind turbines in Hungary.[2] He worked for E.ON Hungária Ltd. as an environmental expert between 2009 and 2013. Thereafter, he was an EHS consultant at Denkstatt Hungary Ltd. until July 2019.[3]

Political career

He entered into politics when joined Momentum Movement as a "disappointed Fidesz voter", according to himself.[4] He unsuccessfully ran as his party's candidate of MP for Hatvan (Heves County Constituency III) during the 2018 parliamentary election.[5] He was one of the organizers of the anti-government protests in Újpest in December 2018.[6]

As a local patriot, Tibor Déri initiated the opposition parties should nominee a joint candidate against mayor Zsolt Wintermantel (Fidesz) for the 2019 local elections.[4] Déri, who became chair of the local Újpest branch of the Momentum Movement by then, supported the nomination of Botond Szalma, a former member of the Fidesz-ally Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), along with the other opposition parties. However, Szalma stepped down as joint mayoral candidate in March 2019, citing personal reasons. Thereafter, the opposition coalition nominated Tibor Déri instead of him.[1] In the election, Déri defeated incumbent mayor Wintermantel, receiving 50.5 percent of the vote.[7]

On 19 October 2022 he announced his intention to switch to the Democratic Coalition's fraction in the Budapest General Assembly, thus leaving the Momentum Movement.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Egy fiatal, ambíciózus momentumos jelölt száll harcba Wintermantel ellen az ellenzéki pártok támogatásával". ujpestihirmondo.hu. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  2. ^ Déri, Tibor (3 December 2010). "Hálózatra termelő nagyteljesítményű szélerőművek alkalmazásának lehetőségei és hatásai Magyarországon". University of Debrecen Electronic Archive. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  3. ^ "Tibor Déri – EHS Consultant, Denkstatt Hungary Kft". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  4. ^ a b ""Mitől féljek? Nincs félnivalóm" - nem ijedős az ellenzék újpesti polgármester-jelöltje". Zoltai Ákos. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  5. ^ "Déri Tibor képviselőjelölt – Heves 03. OEVK". momentum.hu. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  6. ^ "Túlharsogták az újpesti ellenzéki tüntetők a fideszes polgármester jégpályás mulatságát". Tóth Csaba Tibor. February 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
  7. ^ Helyi önkormányzati választások 2019 - Budapest IV. kerület
  8. ^ "Kilép a Momentumból és átül a DK frakciójába Déri Tibor". 24.hu (in Hungarian). 2022-10-19. Retrieved 2022-11-20.