Máté Kocsis (born 6 May 1981)[1] is a Hungarian jurist, sports administrator and politician, who served as Mayor of Józsefváros (8th district of Budapest) from 2009 to 2018.

[2] He also represents Józsefváros (Budapest Constituency XI then VI) in the National Assembly of Hungary from 2010 to 2014, and since 2018.

[3][4] Kocsis was delegated to the Budapest Electoral Commission by the Fidesz during the 2006 Hungarian parliamentary election.

[2] In May 2011, Fidesz called for a fact-finding committee to be set up, examining the circumstances of tension between local Roma and non-Roma in the north Hungarian village of Gyöngyöspata.

[11] In January 2013, after an anti-Roma text written by journalist and Fidesz-member Zsolt Bayer in the newspaper Magyar Hírlap, Kocsis (the communications chief of the same party) stated that anyone who protested against the article "was putting himself on the side of murderers" - meaning the Roma.

The article was written after the murder of the Romani boxer Gergely Sávoly, and stated that a "considerable proportion of the gypsies are not fit to live among people.

These animals should certainly not exist...[12][13] In December 2014, Kocsis attracted international attention by proposing mandatory annual drug tests for children between the ages of 12 and 18, politicians and journalists.

[14] In May 2015, liberal politician and LGBT activist Klára Ungár claimed that Kocsis is homosexual.

[17] In Ungár's initial accusation, Kocsis' name appeared alongside that of József Szájer,[18] a Fidesz MEP who was later caught escaping a gay sex orgy held in Brussels in violation of Belgian COVID-19 regulations on the night of 27 November 2020.