Zoltán Balczó (born 1 January 1948) is a Hungarian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary between 2009–2010 and 2014–2019. He is a member of Jobbik. He is a former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary.[1] He was a Member of Parliament from 1998 to 2002, from 2010 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2022.
Zoltán Balczó | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019 | |
In office 1 July 2009 – 13 May 2010 | |
Constituency | Hungary |
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly | |
In office 14 May 2010 – 5 May 2014 | |
Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 18 June 1998 – 14 May 2002 | |
In office 14 May 2010 – 20 June 2014 | |
In office 8 July 2019 – 1 May 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Nyíregyháza, Hungary | 1 January 1948
Political party | Hungarian Jobbik EU Non-Inscrits |
Spouse | Zsófia Balczó |
Children |
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Alma mater | University of Budapest, Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
His older brother is András Balczó, the Olympic champion.
After the 2010 elections, he was appointed one of the deputy speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary. As a result, he was replaced by Béla Kovács in the European Parliament. He was elected MEP again in the 2014 European Parliament election; as a result, he resigned from his national parliamentary mandate in June 2014.
See also
editExternal links
edit- Balczó Zoltán Bio on jobbik.hu (in Hungarian)
- MEP profile
References
edit- ^ origo.hu: Ádertől Tabajdiig - a magyar EP-képviselők (in Hungarian)