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should take political and legal responsibility for the police's behavior. "In the course of my investigation I came to the conclusion that
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in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010. He was the leader of the parliamentary group between 1998 and 2002, while he also served as vice-president of the MDF from 2000 to 2001. Balsai functioned as the parliament's
Employment and Labor Committee from 2002 to 2006. Balsai was an observer then full member of the
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in 1972. He became a trainee lawyer in that year. He passed the special exam in 1974, and began to work for
Budapest no. 21 Lawyer Working Community until the end of the Communist period. He worked as a private lawyer from 1995 to 2007.
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