Sándor Rónai (politician, born 1988)
Sándor Rónai | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 19 May 2025 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 2 July 2019[1] – 15 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Hungary |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 November 1988 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Political party | Democratic Coalition |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
Sándor Rónai (born 22 November 1988)[2] is a Hungarian politician, who has been a member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Coalition since 2025. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
Education
Rónai graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University.[2] He speaks English and German.[3]
Career
In 2014, Rónai was elected as a member of the Pest County Municipality. He was a founding member of the Democratic Coalition and became its spokesperson in 2018.[4] He was nominated in third place on the Democratic Coalition's European Parliament list and elected as MEP in the 2019 election.[5][3]
From 2022 to 2024, Rónai had been vice-chair of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware.[6] He was a member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[7] In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development.[8] Rónai run as a candidate (4th place) of his party in the 2024 European Parliament election, but lost his seat since the Democratic Coalition gained only two mandates.
Rónai was elected a Member of Parliament on 19 May 2025, succeeding party leader Ferenc Gyurcsány, who retired from politics. Rónai became vice-chair of the parliament's committee of justice on the next day.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Rónai Sándor". dkp.hu. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ^ a b Péter, Bohus (2019-02-22). "Dobrev Klára vezeti a DK EP-listáját". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ^ "Fegyvereket szállítana Ukrajnába Dobrev árnyékminisztere". hirado.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- ^ "Mandátumok". Nemzeti Választási Iroda (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
- ^ "EP inquiry committee for Pegasus and other spyware launched". www.europarl.europa.eu. 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ "Home | Sándor RÓNAI | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ "Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development [IG9-08] | About intergroups | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ "Nagy taps fogadta a parlamentben Gyurcsány lemondását, utódja letette a képviselői esküjét". telex.hu. 2025-05-19. Retrieved 2025-05-26.