Hungarian politician
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.[ 1]
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 .[ 2]
Education
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 the Hungarian Parliament
1998–2002: Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
1990–1994: Minister of Welfare
1999–2004: Deputy leader, Group of the European People's Party, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
2000–2001: Head, Hungarian delegation (1998-2002), Deputy Speaker, Hungarian Parliament
2004–2014: Member of the European Parliament
Member of the bureau, EPP-ED group (since 2004), Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with Chile
since 2012: Vice-President of the European Parliament
Personal life
He is married to Lászlóné Surján, they have together three children - two daughters, Zsófia Margit and Orsolya Katalin as well as a son, László György.[ 3]
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