10 Facts About Attila Cseke

Attila-Zoltan Cseke was born on 9 June 1973 and is a Romanian lawyer and politician.

Attila Cseke was born to ethnic Hungarian parents in Marghita and in 1991 completed secondary studies at the city's Industrial High School.

Attila Cseke completed postgraduate studies in Public Law there in 2002, and received a master's degree in Private Law from the same institution in 2004.

In 2001, Cseke interned at a notary public office in Marghita; from that year until the following, he worked as a reviewer at the UDMR's Bihor County chapter.

Attila Cseke resigned in January 2005 to become Secretary of State at the Romanian Government's Secretariat General, serving there until December 2008.

In December 2009, when four ministerial portfolios were assigned to the UDMR in a cabinet led by the Democratic Liberal Party's Emil Boc, Attila Cseke's party assigned him to the Health Ministry.

Attila Cseke has called for reforms in Romania's health care system, including a focus on allowing family physicians to practice medicine rather than become entangled in bureaucracy, saying it risks total paralysis otherwise.

Attila Cseke cautioned that cuts in investment and infrastructure would be necessary as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, but said that doctors and nurses, already too few in number, would not be laid off.

Attila Cseke resigned in August 2011, citing insufficient allocation of funds for the health system and what he indicated was a dismissive attitude toward health care by the rest of the government.

From 1997 to 2000, Attila Cseke was a member of the Hungarian Students' Union in Bihor County.