Sándor Bali

Sándor Bali (Újdombóvár, February 18, 1923 - Budapest, 2 January 1982) Hungarian politician, hero of 1956, co-founder and secretary of the Central Budapest Workers' Council.

He was born in Újdombóvár in 1923 as the youngest child of a family of twelve. After completing the six elementary years, he was a day worker and then a servant. In the autumn of 1944, he was taken to the west by the waves, and returned a year later. From 1946 he worked at the Beloiannisz Telecommunication Factory. As a participant in the Stahanovista movement, he was +awarded several honors, and he was one of the country's best toolmakers in his time. In 1946 he joined the MKP, and from 1948 until his resignation he was a member of the MDP.

In 1956 he participated in the Budapest demonstrations with his wife. As a delegate of the Beloianisz Telecommunications Engineering Factory, he argued that the workers' councils could not recognize the Kádár government but could negotiate with them. Bali's proposal was accepted by the meeting and on 14 November it was declared the establishment of the Budapest Central Workers' Council (NBKMT), which was entitled to negotiate with the Kádár Government on behalf of all the workers of the Budapest factory.

From the beginning of the formation, Balin wanted to be president of the NBKMT, but only engaged in secretarial duties, but he always led the negotiations. On 11 December he was arrested at the Gate of 17 in the Parliament with Sándor Rácz, after persistently refusing to cooperate with the Kádár Government. In 1958 he was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, and in 1963 he was released with amnesty with many of his associates.

In 1982 he died: István Bibó, Árpád Göncz, Imre Mécs, György Litván and György Krassó attended his funeral.

In November 2007, the founder of the National Association of Workers 'Councils, Imre Palkovics, commemorated the memorial plaque of Sándor Bali in Podmaniczky (then Rudas László) street 64, where on 23 October every year, commemorating the whole country Workers' Council leaders and numerous public figures.

In 2009, in the 11th district of Budapest, street was named after Sándor Bali.