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Sándor Rónai (politician, born 1988)

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Sándor Rónai
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1]
ConstituencyHungary
Personal details
Born (1988-11-22) 22 November 1988 (age 35)
NationalityHungarian
Political partyDemocratic Coalition
Alma materEötvös Loránd University
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Rónai Sándor

Sándor Rónai (born 22 November 1988)[2] is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Democratic Coalition.

Education

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Rónai graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University.[2] He speaks English and German.[3]

Career

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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]

Since 2022, Rónai has been vice-chair of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware.[6] He is 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 is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Rónai Sándor". dkp.hu. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  3. ^ a b Péter, Bohus (2019-02-22). "Dobrev Klára vezeti a DK EP-listáját". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  4. ^ "Fegyvereket szállítana Ukrajnába Dobrev árnyékminisztere". hirado.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  5. ^ "Mandátumok". Nemzeti Választási Iroda (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-07-03.
  6. ^ "EP inquiry committee for Pegasus and other spyware launched". www.europarl.europa.eu. 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  7. ^ "Home | Sándor RÓNAI | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  8. ^ "Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development [IG9-08] | About intergroups | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2023-06-28.