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Berecz rose to prominence in the spring of 1985, when hard-line branch of the ruling party obtained important positions. He was delegated to the
Secretariat of the Central Committee in March 1985, in charge of agitation and propaganda. Succeeding
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in August 1968. He was appointed deputy head (since 1972), then head (from 1974 to 1982) of the
Foreign Affairs Department of the Central Committee of MSZMP. He was elected to the central committee in March 1980. He worked as editor-in-chief of
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Hungary, Berecz entered foreign service. He functioned as Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since August 1966. In this capacity, he participated in preparation for opening diplomatic relations with
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began. He was not re-elected to the
Political Committee in April 1989, then was replaced as secretary for ideology and propaganda in June 1989. He chaired the parliament's foreign affairs committee from June 1989 to May 1990.
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His first wife was Annamária Lőwinger (1933–1986), deputy director of the
National General Directorate of Spas. They married in 1955. They had three children, including diplomat
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did not reach the parliamentary threshold too. He left the party in 1991 and was a vocal supporter of the Left Wing Unity
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then general secretary Károly Grósz. Due to his staunch
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on 18 September 1930, as the son of Elek Berecz and Emília K. Fekete. He attended elementary school in his birthplace (six-grade primary) and
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central committee of the DISZ as a political associate in 1955. In this capacity, he supervised the ideological operations of the
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from 1949. He graduated from there in 1950. He attended the
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Berecz studied in the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the
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János Berecz died in Budapest on 7 July 2022, at the age of 91.
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branch and was considered a potential candidate to succeed
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politician and ideologist, a leading member of the ruling
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Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–1990)
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János Berecz was born into farming peasant family in
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