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Hungarian lawyer and politician

Ibolya Dávid
Ibolya in 2006
Minister of Justice
In office
8 July 1998 – 27 May 2002
Prime MinisterViktor Orbán
Preceded byPál Vastagh
Succeeded byPéter Bárándy
Personal details
Born (1954-08-12) 12 August 1954 (age 70)
Baja, People's Republic of Hungary
Political partyMDF
Children2
ProfessionPolitician, jurist
The native form of this personal name is Dávid Ibolya. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Ibolya Dávid (born 1954 in Baja, Hungary) is a Hungarian lawyer, politician, she was the president of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) between 1999 and 2010. Dávid was the Hungarian Minister of Justice between 1998 and 2002.

In 1998 as the minister of justice of Hungary she didn't sign off on the presidential pardon of Peter Kunos bank CEO, even though the approval for presidential pardons was previously thought to be customary, and always done by the current minister of justice. Due to the lack of approval the pardon didn't come into effect. This happened the first time in the history of the democratic Hungary.

She was the only female Minister in the government of Viktor Orbán. After the MDF fraction was disbanded, Dávid was a member of the Hungarian Parliament as an independent. Dávid made the controversial decision to nominate Lajos Bokros, a former minister in Gyula Horn's MSZP government, to the European Parliament election on the MDF party list which led to some members leaving the party.

In the 2010 parliamentary election the Hungarian Democratic Forum continued its downward trend and missed the 5% electoral threshold, leaving it shut out of parliament. Ibolya Dávid resigned on 11 April 2010, after the first round. Károly Herényi became her acting successor.

References

  1. "Novák mögött bújik meg a kegyelmi botrány másik kulcsszereplője". telex (in Hungarian). 9 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024. Hasonló eset ugyanis megtörtént még az első Orbán-kormány idején 1998-ban. Dávid Ibolya akkori igazságügyi miniszter már eleve elutasítási javaslattal terjesztette fel a köztársasági elnöknek Kunos Péter bankvezér kegyelmi kérelmét, de Göncz Árpád végül mégis kegyelmet adott neki. Ez viszont Dávid Ibolyának nem tetszett, és mivel övé volt a végső szó, nem írta alá a kegyelmet. Orbán Viktor pedig erre akkor rábólintott.
  2. András, Sereg (3 May 2023). "Elődjeinél gyakrabban él kegyelmi jogkörével Novák Katalin". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 16 February 2024. Talán a legnagyobb vihart Dávid Ibolya igazságügyi miniszter döntése keltette. Göncz Árpád 1998 őszén elnöki kegyelmet adott Kunos Péter bankárnak, akit egy jogilag vitatott ügyben két év börtönbüntetésre ítéltek.

    DÁVID IBOLYA AZONBAN NEM ELLENJEGYEZTE A KEGYELMI HATÁROZATOT, ÍGY ELŐSZÖR FORDULT ELŐ MAGYARORSZÁGON, HOGY A KÖZTÁRSASÁGI ELNÖK NEM ÉLHETETT KEGYELMI JOGÁVAL.
Political offices
Preceded byPál Vastagh Minister of Justice
1998–2002 		Succeeded byPéter Bárándy
Party political offices
Preceded bySándor Lezsák President of the Hungarian Democratic Forum
1999–2010 		Succeeded byKároly Herényi
Ministers of Justice of Hungary since 1848
Revolution of 1848
Kingdom of Hungary
Transition period
Regency
Transition period
Communist Hungary
Republic of Hungary


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