Alexandra Dobolyi (born September 26, 1971) is a Hungarian politician. She is a former

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

(MEP) for the

Hungarian Socialist Party The Hungarian Socialist Party (, ), commonly known by its acronym MSZP (), is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary. It was founded on 7 October 1989 as a post-communist evolution and one of t ...

, part of the

Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a Social democracy, social democratic European political party. The PES comprises national-level political parties from all the European Economic Area, European economic area states (EEA) plus the Unit ...

group. Dobolyi was an MEP from 2004 to 2009.

Early life

Alexandra Dobolyi was born on 26 September 1971 in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, Hungary. Her early education was at Petőfi Sándor High School in Budapest.

European Parliament

Dobolyi stood as a candidate for the

in the 2004 European parliamentary election. She was elected as one of its nine MEPs in

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 ...

. Dobolyi was part of the

group. In the European Parliament, Dobolyi was a member of the Committee on Development, Committee on Petitions, and was part of the delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Personal life

She is married to politician and former Finance Minister

János Veres János Veres (born 5 February 1957) is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Finance between 2005 and 2009. He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party since 1980. He served as first secretary of the party's committee ...

References

1971 births Living people Politicians from Budapest Hungarian Socialist Party MEPs MEPs for Hungary 2004–2009 Women MEPs for Hungary 21st-century Hungarian politicians {{Hungary-MEP-stub