Zsolt Egyed

Zsolt Egyed was born in Miskolc on 27 April 1974 into a Lutheran family. He finished his secondary studies in 1992. He qualified as an electronics technician in 1994.[1]

Egyed joined far-right Jobbik in 2007. He was also a founding member of the paramilitary organization Magyar Gárda, serving the captain of its Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County branch between 2007 and 2009.[1] He was elected deputy president in 2008, then president of the local county branch of Jobbik in July 2009, also becoming member of the party's national board.[1]

He ran for an individual seat in Miskolc (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County 1st constituency) in the 2010 parliamentary election, but was defeated by Fidesz candidate Katalin Csöbör.[1] Egyed became MP via the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County regional list of the Jobbik. He was a member of the Committee on Employment and Labor and its two sub-committees from 2010 to 2014.[2] Egyed unsuccessfully ran for MP for Ózd (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County 3rd constituency in the 2014 parliamentary election; he acquired 29.64 of the vote and came to the second place after Fidesz candidate Gábor Riz.[3] Nevertheless, he became MP via the Jobbik's national list. He was a member of the Immunity Committee from 2014 to 2018.[2] Egyed was a candidate of his party in Kazincbarcika (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County 4th constituency) in the 2018 parliamentary election, but acquired 30.17 percent of the vote and was defeated by Zoltán Demeter (Fidesz). Egyed lost his parliamentary seat.[4] Egyed was elected to the local representative body of Kazincbarcika in the 2019 local elections.[5]