János Áder

János Áder (2015)

János Áder [ ˈjaːnoʃ ˈaːdɛr ] (born May 9, 1959 in Csorna , Hungary ) is a Hungarian politician ( Fidesz ) and since May 10, 2012 President of his country.

Life

Áder studied at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest law . He worked at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Sociology. His specialty was the legislative work of Parliament.

János Áder is married to the judge Anita Herczegh - daughter of Géza Herczegh , a former judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague - and has four children.

Fidesz

Áder is a founding member of the meanwhile largest conservative party in Hungary, Fidesz ( Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége , "Association of Young Democrats", founded on March 30, 1988). In the 1990 and 1994 elections, he was campaign chief for Fidesz. After that he became vice president of the party; he held this post until 1997. After controversies about the father of the then Fidesz president Zoltán Pokorni , he later took over the party's provisional chairmanship; Viktor Orbán succeeded him in 2003.

Member of the Hungarian and European Parliament

Áder was a member of the Hungarian parliament from 1990 to 2009 . When Fidesz won the parliamentary elections in 1998, he was elected President of Parliament. At the age of 39, he was the youngest parliamentary speaker in Hungarian history. After losing the 2002 election, he had to hand over this position to Katalin Szili . He was elected chairman of his parliamentary group and held this office until 2006. In the constituent session of parliament on May 16, 2006, he was elected vice-president.

From 2009 until his nomination for Hungarian President in 2012, Áder was a member of the European Parliament .

Hungarian President

On May 2, 2012, Áder was elected Hungary's new President with 262 votes from the members of the Hungarian Parliament. The previous president, Pál Schmitt , resigned on April 2, 2012 after Semmelweis University revoked his doctorate on March 29, 2012 because of extensive plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. On March 13, 2017, Parliament elected Áder for a second term. The only opposing candidate was the non-party legal scholar László Majtényi , who was supported by the social-liberal opposition ; the right-wing extremist Jobbik party had not put up its own candidate.

Web links

Commons : János Áder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on János Áder in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• CV on the website of the President's Office (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hungary: Janos Ader replaces Pal Schmitt as president , BBC News , May 2, 2012, accessed May 10, 2017.
2. ↑ Hungary: Janos Ader elected President at orf.at, May 2, 2012 (accessed on May 2, 2012).
3. ↑ Janos Áder re-elected as Hungarian President by Parliament. Der Standard, March 13, 2017, accessed on the same day.