Gábor Fodor (politician)

Gábor Fodor
Minister of Education of Hungary
In office 15 July 1994 – 31 December 1995
Preceded by	Ferenc Mádl
Succeeded by	Bálint Magyar
Personal details
Born	(1962-09-27) 27 September 1962 Gyöngyös, People's Republic of Hungary
Political party	Liberals (2013– )
Other political affiliations	Fidesz (1988–1993) SZDSZ (1994–2010)
Children	2
Profession	jurist, politician

The native form of this personal name is Fodor Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.

Gábor Fodor (born 27 September 1962) is a Hungarian jurist and liberal politician. He is a former president of the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) 2008–09. Fodor resigned after the results of the 2009 European Parliament election. Fodor was Minister of Education between 1994–95 and Minister of Environmental Protection and Water between 2007–08. He was elected in an internal SZDSZ election to the post of party leader in June 2008 with 346 votes to 344. This was an unscheduled election prompted by problems around the verification of the result of the previous vote.

He was a founding member of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union but left the party in 1993.

Fodor founded the Hungarian Liberal Party (or Liberals) on 27 April 2013.

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Political offices
Preceded by Ferenc Mádl	Minister of Education 1994–1995	Succeeded by Bálint Magyar
Party political offices
Preceded by János Kóka	President of the Alliance of Free Democrats 2008–2009	Succeeded by Attila Retkes