István Göndör

István Göndör (born 20 March 1950) is a Hungarian economist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Nagykanizsa (Zala County Constituency II) from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2010. He was also a Member of Parliament from the Zala County regional list from 1998 to 2002 and the national list of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) from 2010 to 2014.

Profession Göndör was born in Kőszegszerdahely on 20 March 1950. He attended elementary school in Türje. He finished his secondary studies at the I. István Economic Technical School in Budapest in 1968. He earned his degree of business economy at the Financial and Accounting College (today a faculty of the Budapest Business School) in 1971. Following that he worked for the Central Transdanubian Gas Supply Company (Közép-dunántúli Gázszolgáltató Vállalat) and its legal successor Kögáz Ltd.

Political career Göndör joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1971. He was a prominent trade unionist in the 1970s. He was involved in the Mining Trade Union. He was a member of its economics committee from 1980 to 1988. He was a founding member and bursar of the Kögáz Engineering Labor Union. Göndör participated in the reformist movement during the regime change; he was one of the organizers of the Round Table Talks in his residence Nagykanizsa. In the spring of 1989, he had an important role in the democratization of the Zala County branch committee of the Socialist Workers' Party. Göndör joined the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in October 1989, and was elected chairman of its local branch in Nagykanizsa, serving in this capacity until 2003. when he ran as a joint candidate of the Unity parties and only came to the third place after Cseresnyés (Fidesz) and Zakó (Jobbik).