Ferenc Papcsák
Hungarian politician
Ferenc Papcsák (born 19 February 1966) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician, who served as Mayor of Zugló (District XIV, Budapest) from 2010 to 2014. Besides that he represented Zugló (Budapest Constituency XXI) in the National Assembly of Hungary between 2010 and 2014. He was also Member of Parliament for Baktalórántháza (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Constituency V) between 2002 and 2006.
In 2010, Papcsák served as government accountability commissioner, whose role was to name former government officials who participated in economic decision-making which clearly damaged the country and taxpayers, and to take legal steps to hold those former officials accountable.
Biography
Papcsák was born into a Greek Catholic family of six children from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. He spent his childhood in Demecser.
He finished Vasvári Pál Vocational Technical School of Chemical Industry No. 115 at Tiszavasvári in 1983 as a skilled worker in chemicals and drug production. He worked for Chinoin Pharmaceutical Company in Budapest as a skilled worker in chemical and drug production from 1983 to 1987. Parallel to his job, as a part-time student, he finished Könyves Kálmán Secondary School at Újpest (District IV, Budapest) in 1986.
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