Péter Eckstein-Kovács
Romanian lawyer and politician
Péter Eckstein-Kovács (born July 5, 1956) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. A former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Cluj County from 1990 to 1992 and a member of the Cluj-Napoca city council from 1992 to 1996. That year, he was elected to the Romanian Senate, where he served until 2008, except for a stint as Minister-Delegate for National Minorities in the Radu Vasile cabinet (1999) and a break until he was elected again in November 2000.
He and his wife have three children.
Biography
He was born to ethnic Hungarian parents in Cluj and studied law at the city's Babeş-Bolyai University from 1975 to 1980. From 1980 to 1981, he was a legal adviser in Miercurea-Ciuc, and since 1981 he has worked as a lawyer there and in Cluj-Napoca. He states that he was not a member of the Romanian Communist Party and did not collaborate with the Securitate.
Following the 1989 Revolution, Eckstein-Kovács joined the UDMR as a founding member and represented it in the Chamber from 1990 to 1992. From that year until 1996, he was on the Cluj-Napoca city council, after which he was elected to the Senate, also for Cluj County. In January 1999, following the resignation of György Tokay, he was appointed Minister-Delegate for National Minorities in Radu Vasile's cabinet, serving until the cabinet fell that December.
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