Anna Orosz (born June 2, 1989,

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) is a Hungarian economist and politician, Member of Parliament since 2022. From March 2017 to May 2018 she was a member of the board of the

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. From October 2019 local government representative

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, she became the deputy mayor of Újbuda. On 11 October 2021, during the 2nd round of the Hungarian Opposition Primary, she took over the management of Momentum from

András Fekete-Győr András Fekete-Győr (born 13 April 1989) is a Hungarian activist, lawyer and politician. He was the inaugural leader of the Momentum Movement ( hu, Momentum Mozgalom) party from 2016 to 2021. Fekete-Győr became a nationally known political fi ...

Career

Orosz is the daughter of Csaba Orosz, an associate professor at

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. Between 2007 and 2011 she attended the BSc in International Management at the

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. She was then an MSc student in economics at the

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in Berlin. From 2013 she worked as an analyst at the Budapest Institute.

Political career

Since 2015, she has been an activist in the Momentum Movement. In early 2017, as a member of the movement's leadership, she was one of the faces of the NOlimpia campaign. On March 4, 2017, she was elected a member of the party's presidency at the movement's renewal general assembly. In 2017, according to

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, she was the 8th most influential Hungarian woman in public life. As they were not elected to the Parliament in the 2018 elections, the party's presidency, including Anna Orosz, resigned on 5 May 2018. In November 2018, she became an analyst and communications associate at Political Capital. On July 15, 2019, she announced that she would return to politics, and as a result of the opposition coalition, she became a candidate for the Momentum Movement in Budapest XI. district (Újbuda). She was elected a representative in the 2019 Hungarian municipal elections. On October 31, she became a member of the Momentum Movement faction in the district council, and was also elected as one of the deputy mayor of Újbuda. On June 8, 2020, she was elected to the party's new seven-member presidency. In the

2021 Hungarian Opposition Primary An opposition primary was held in Hungary, between 18–28 September 2021 (first round) and 10–16 October 2021 (second round), to select the candidate for Prime Minister of Hungary supported by the opposition parties to form a coalition to comp ...

, she was elected as a joint opposition candidate in Budapest No. 2. for the upcoming general election. From 10 October 2021, after the resignation of András Fekete-Győr, she became the interim leader of the Momentum Movement. She ran for the party leadership election on 21 November 2021, where she acquired 28.9 percent of the vote and came to the second place after

Anna Donáth Anna Júlia Donáth (born 6 April 1987) is a Hungarian politician. She was elected as a Momentum Movement (part of the Renew Europe group) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election. Donáth was the lea ...

. Orosz was elected MP for Újbuda (Budapest 2nd constituency) in the 2022 parliamentary election, defeating

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candidate

István Simicskó István Simicskó (born 29 November 1961) is a Hungarian politician of the governing Fidesz–KDNP coalition. He has been a Member of the National Assembly since 1998. He served as Minister of Defence from 10 September 2015 to 18 May 2018. Studi ...

. She became a member of the parliament's Committee on Sustainable Development and Economic Committee.

References

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