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

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.

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

[4] The following month, he proposed a tax on fatty, salty and sugary foods, with the revenue to be used in the public health sector.

[5] He 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.

[6] He also cautioned that cuts in investment and infrastructure would be necessary as a result of the ongoing financial crisis,[7] but said that doctors and nurses, already too few in number, would not be laid off.

[12] Continuing as such in 2020,[13] he was also named Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration in the government of Florin Cîțu that December.