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Gábor Ferenczi

Hungarian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16519688 ↗
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Gábor Ferenczi (born 28 May 1977) is a Hungarian educator and politician, who has been the mayor of Devecser since 2014. Prior to that, he was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 2010 to 2014. He was a politician of the far-right Jobbik, then Our Homeland Movement.

Career

Gábor Ferenczi was born in Ajka on 28 May 1977. He graduated as a Hungarian-German teacher in 1999 and as a cultural organizer in the Teacher Training College Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

He joined the paramilitary Magyar Gárda in the spring of 2008. He was a founding member and president of the local branch of the Jobbik in Ajka since 2008. He was elected president of the party's branch in Veszprém County in December 2008. He functioned as a vice-president of the party's electoral board since September 2009.

Ferenczi was elected a Member of Parliament via the Veszprém County regional list of the Jobbik in the 2010 parliamentary election.

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The public source identifies “Gábor Ferenczi” as hungarian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gábor, Ferenczi and Hungarian.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2014, 2010, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-05-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gábor, Ferenczi and Hungarian providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16519688. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2014, 2010 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gábor Ferenczi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.