Béla Pásztor
Hungarian politician (born 1938)
Béla Pásztor (born 27 February 1938) is a Hungarian politician, who served as Chairman of the Council then Mayor of Veresegyház from 1 September 1965.
Pásztor resigned on 28 February 2023.
With 25 years spent as chairman of council (the Communist era version of mayor), then 32 years as mayor, he holds the record as the longest serving leader of a municipality in Hungary.
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