Máté Kocsis

Máté Kocsis (born May 6, 1981) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, current Mayor of Józsefváros (8th district of Budapest) since 2009. He also represented Józsefváros (Budapest Constituency XI) in the National Assembly of Hungary between 2010 and 2014.

Biography

He graduated from the Calvinist Secondary Grammar School of Lónyay Street in 1999. He received his Juris Doctor degree at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2004. He participated in the joint graduate school of the Századvég Political School and the Corvinus University of Budapest as a policy expert between 2004 and 2006.

Kocsis was delegated to the Budapest Electoral Commission by the Fidesz during the 2006 Hungarian parliamentary election. He was elected to the General Assembly of Józsefváros in the 2006 Hungarian local elections. He served as a Deputy Mayor of Józsefváros and leader of the Fidesz group from 2006 to 2009. He also became a member of the General Assembly of Budapest in 2006. He served as Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Committee on Law and Procedure.Béla Csécsei, the Mayor of Józsefváros, resigned from his position for health reasons in 2009. Kocsis was elected mayor during a by-election on November 22, 2009. As a result he resigned from his seat in the General Assembly of Budapest.