Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: A Hotel Manager to Become Parliament President
The Tisza Party is nominating Ágnes Forsthoffer for Speaker of the National Assembly, announced Péter Magyar, chairman of the Tisza Party and prime minister-elect on Monday on his Facebook page. The choice for this high-ranking position suggests that the Tisza Party lacks seasoned politicians for key roles.
Ágnes Forsthoffer was born in 1980 and comes from a background rooted in the tourism and hospitality sector before she entered politics and became vice-chair of the Tisza Party in September 2025.
Before her political career, she worked for a short time as an audit assistant at Deloitte. In 2002, she became Financial Director at a small company dealing with waste management and investments. From 2012, she served as Managing Director at the same company, where members of her family are also involved. Since 2006, she and her family have owned and operated a small hotel at Lake Balaton. She is the director (and majority owner) of the hotel and its affiliated management company.
Between 2023 and September 2025 she also served as the Regional Director of the Hungarian Hotel & Restaurant Association (HHRA) – Balaton Region. She left this position after being elected vice president of the Tisza Party.