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2009 European Parliament Election In Hungary
An election of Members of the European Parliament from Hungary to the European Parliament was held in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 June. Candidates Among the candidates that ran were: *Pál Schmitt, József Szájer, Kinga Gál, János Áder, László Surján, Lívia Járóka, András Gyürk, Béla Glattfelder, Ádám Kósa, Ágnes Hankiss for Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union *Kinga Göncz, Edit Herczog, Zita Gurmai, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Gyula Hegyi, Szabolcs Fazekas, Gyula Cserei, Mihály Kökény, Gábor Harangozó for the Hungarian Socialist Party *Lajos Bokros, Archduke Georg of Austria, György Habsburg, Szabolcs Joó, Ibolya Dávid for the Hungarian Democratic Forum * István Szent-Iványi, Gabriella Béki, Gábor Demszky, György Konrád for the Alliance of Free Democrats * Krisztina Morvai, Zoltán Balczó, Csanád Szegedi, Judit Szima, Gábor Vona for Jobbik – Movement for a Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube, Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians, Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani people in Hungary, Romani minority. Hungarian language, Hungarian is the Languages of Hungary, official language, and among Languages of Europe, the few in Europe outside the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zita Gurmai
Zita Gurmai (born 1 June 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. Education and early career *1983–1988. Karl Marx University of Economics (1983–1988); doctorate 1991 *1988–1990. Comporgan company, communications coordinator *1990–1992. T-Mobile International AG, Westel Rádiótelefon Kft., sales executive *1994–1995. Political History Institute, PR manager *1995–2002. Szelén Művelődési Tanácsadó Kft., manager Political career From the 1990s Gurmai was active in civil society, sets up many foundations: Nők a valódi esélyegenlőségért Alapítvány (Women's Foundation for Genuine Equality), Nők a közéletben Alapítvány (Women in Public Life Foundation). She drew up many reports on equality and done research as organiser and co-author. *2002–2004. Member of the Hungarian Parliament, delega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edit Herczog
Edit Herczog (born 6 May 1961 in Budapest) is a Hungarian Socialist Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2014. Hungarian Socialist Party work. Herczog has been a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party and of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) since 1989. She was elected as an MP in 1998 and also in 2002 in Fejér county. She became a member of the national presidency of the MSZP in 2007. She worked her way up the bureaucracy of the MSZP, through the Procedural Committee, in the Committee of the European Integration Affairs between 1998–2002 and in the Committee of Foreign Affairs and of Environmental Protection since 2002. Herczog was a member of the Hungarian delegation of the European Commission from 1999. Being leader of the female committee of the socialist group in Strasbourg she was also a member of the group leadership. She took part in the work of the Hungarian-English and Hungarian-American branches of the Inter-Parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union
Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal. Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as a centre-left and liberal activist movement that opposed the ruling Marxist–Leninist government. It was registered as a political party in 1990, with Orbán as its leader. It entered the National Assembly following the 1990 parliamentary election. Following the 1998 election, it successfully formed a centre-right government. It adopted nationalism in the early 2000s, but its popularity declined due to corruption scandals. It was in opposition between 2002 and 2010, and in 2006 it formed a coalition with the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP). Fidesz won a supermajority in the 2010 election, adopted national-conservative policies, shifted further to the right and became Eurosceptic. The 2011 adoption of a new Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágnes Hankiss
Ágnes Hankiss (born Ágnes Erdős; 7 March 1950 – 17 August 2021) was a Hungarian politician and elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with Fidesz, a member of the European People's Party. She was born and died in Budapest, Hungary. Her son is politician and traffic expert Dávid Vitézy. Hankiss is best known in English for her 1992 historical novel ''A Hungarian Romance: A Novel''. See also *2009 European Parliament election in Hungary An election of Members of the European Parliament from Hungary to the European Parliament was held in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 June. Candidates Among ... References 1950 births 2021 deaths Politicians from Budapest Fidesz MEPs MEPs for Hungary 2009–2014 Women MEPs for Hungary Jewish Hungarian politicians 20th-century Hungarian politicians 20th-century Hungarian women politicians 21st-century Hungarian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ádám Kósa
Ádám Kósa (born 1 July 1975) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary. He is a member of Fidesz. He is the first deaf European politician user of Deaf Sign Language in the European Parliament. He was president of the Hungarian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing from 2005 to 2022. Education Kósa graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2000. He graduated from Semmelweis University. He has worked as a lawyer. See also *2009 European Parliament election in Hungary An election of Members of the European Parliament from Hungary to the European Parliament was held in 2009. Hungary delegated 22 members to the European Parliament based on the Nice treaty and the election took place on 7 June. Candidates Among ... References 1975 births Living people Deaf politicians Politicians from Budapest Fidesz MEPs MEPs for Hungary 2009–2014 MEPs for Hungary 2014–2019 MEPs for Hungary 2019–2024 Hunga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Glattfelder
Béla Glattfelder (born 4 May 1967 in Budapest) is a Politics of Hungary, Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. Glattfelder is a substitute for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries. Glattfelder is also a member of the Delegation for relations with Mercosur. Education * 1992: Agricultural engineer, University of Agriculture, Gödöllő (GATE) * 1994: Agricultural Research and Informatics Institute Career * 1990–2004: Member of the Hungarian Parliament * 2000–2002: Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Affairs Personal life He is married to Éva Umenhoffer. See also * 2004 European Parliament election in Hungary External links * * References 1967 births Living people Fidesz MEPs MEPs for Hungary 2004–2009 MEPs for Hungary 2009–2014 Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
András Gyürk
András Gyürk (born 2 December 1972, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary. He is a member of Fidesz, part of the Patriots for Europe. Gyürk is a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Gyürk is a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He is married with two children. Education *1993 – 1998 Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities (History) *1991 – 1993 College of Finance and Accountancy *1987 – 1991 Franciscan Secondary School (Szentendre) Political activity *2004 – Member of the European Parliament *2002 – 2004 Deputy leader, parliamentary faction of Fidesz *2002 – 2004 Vice chairman, Committee on Youth and Sport, Hungarian Parliament *1998 – 1999 Member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lívia Járóka
Lívia Járóka (born 6 October 1974, in Tata) is a Hungarian politician. She is a Member of the European Parliament, first elected as part of the Fidesz list in 2004. Járóka is the second Romani (and the first Romani woman) ever elected to the European Parliament (after Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia from Spain, who served from 1986 to 1999). Járóka grew up in Sopron, a town near Hungary's western border with Austria. Her father is ethnically Roma, her mother Hungarian. After getting an MA in sociology from the Warsaw campus of the Central European University on a scholarship from the Open Society Institute she went on to study anthropology in Britain, focusing on Romani issues and culture. In August 2003 she had a daughter and a son in 2007. In 2012 she finished her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University College London. Járóka has been criticized as an apologist for the treatment of Hungarian Roma by her party, Fidesz. She has also declined to criticize Fidesz' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Surján
László Surján (born 7 September 1941 in Kolozsvár, (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the FIDESZ from 2004 to 2014. He was the president of the Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary) political party from 1994-1998. He remained a member of the party to this day. Surján was a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. He was a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism. Education * 1969: General practitioner * 1969: Professor's assistant, Institute of Histology, Budapest University of Medicine * University of Further Medical Training Career * 1990–1995: Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party * 1995–1997 and since 2001: Vice-Chairman * 1992–1998: Vice-President of the EUCD (European Union of Christian Democrats) * 1994–1998: Chairman of the Employment Committee of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Áder
János Áder (; born 9 May 1959) is a Hungarian politician and lawyer who served as President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022. He is a long-time politician of the Right-wing politics, right-wing Fidesz. As a representative of his party, he took part in the Hungarian Round Table Talks during the end of communism in Hungary in 1989. He was a member of the National Assembly (Hungary), National Assembly of Hungary from 1990 to 2009 and served as its List of speakers of the National Assembly (Hungary), speaker from 1998 to 2002. He temporarily presided the Fidesz between 2002 and 2003. He served as leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group between 2002 and 2006. Áder was elected a Member of the European Parliament, MEP during the 2009 European Parliament election in Hungary, 2009 European Parliament election. He functioned as Deputy Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety from January to May 2012. Áder became President of Hungary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
