Tibor Kovács

He joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1979, but did not hold any party functions. During the end of communism, he became a founding member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in October 1989. He was appointed a board member of the party branch in Tiszaújváros.^[1] He was elected a member to the representative body of the town in 1992. Since then, he was elected local representative five times until his retirement from politics in 2014.^[2] Kovács became chairman of the Socialist Party branch in Tiszaújváros in 2000, when he was also elected to the presidium of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County branch.^[1]

Kovács was elected Member of Parliament for Tiszaújváros during the 1994 parliamentary election; he obtained 55.19 percent of the vote in the second round. In his first parliamentary term, he worked in the Committee on European Integration.^[2] Kovács was re-elected MP either in 1998, 2002 and 2006. He was involved in the Economic Committee and its several sub-committees (1998–2004), Audit Committee (2002–2003) Budget and Finance Committee (2003–2010; vice-chairman until 2004).^[2]

During the 2010 parliamentary election, Kovács lost to Roland Mengyi (Fidesz), but was elected MP from his party's national list. He was a member of the Economic and Information Technology Committee from 2010 to 2014, serving its vice-chairman from 2011. He also worked in the Health Committee between 2010 and 2011.^[2] Kovács did not run in the 2014 parliamentary election.