Gábor Kubatov (born 17 February 1966) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from FideszBudapest Regional List from 2006 to 2014, and his party's national list since 2014.[1]
He attended to secondary school in Pesterzsébet. He started studies at the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences, but never finished it.[2] From the 1990s he worked as an entrepreneur. He worked in the fields of hospitality, commerce and inhabitants service. He moved to Soroksár with his family in 1997.[3]
He has been chairman of the District XXIII of Budapest Fidesz branch since 2002. He has been party director of Fidesz since 1 July 2006.[3] In the parliamentary elections held in 2006, he was elected from the Budapest Regional List. He was member of the Committee on Culture and the Media since 9 October 2006 to 13 May 2010. He also secured a mandate from the party's Budapest Regional List during the 2010 parliamentary election. He was a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Minority, Civic and Religious Affairs from 30 May 2006 to 5 May 2014.[1]
Kubatov is one of the most passive MPs in the National Assembly since 2006. During his parliamentary career, he gave a speech only once, on 3 April 2007.[1][4]
In two audio recordings (disclosed in 2010) and in a video (disclosed in 2012) Kubatov speaks about creating and managing a list containing data on the party preference of voters. Fidesz allegedly uses this list to activate its voters. Additionally, in the video Kubatov instructs Fidesz-activists to break the campaign silence period to send lazy sympathizers to vote.[5]
