 In 1990 he was elected mayor of Kőszeg, a position which he managed to retain in the next three local elections.He had been a member of the representative body of Kőszeg and the General Assembly of Vas County for 16 years.He ran unsuccessfully in the 1994 parliamentary election and only managed to secure a seat in Parliament in 1998, as a candidate of Fidesz (representing Kőszeg, Constituency III, Vas County).