Attila Béla Ladislau Kelemen (4 May 1948 – 8 January 2022) was an ethnic Hungarian Romanian politician and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

. He was a member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ), part of the

European People's Party–European Democrats The European People's Party Group (EPP Group) is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised political groups consisting of legislators of aligned ...

, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the

accession of Romania to the European Union On 1 January 2007, Bulgaria and Romania became member states of the European Union (EU) in the fifth wave of EU enlargement. Negotiations Romania was the first country of post-communist Europe to have official relations with the European Comm ...

. He served until the election that November. Kelemen has also sat in the

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from 1996 to 2016, representing Mureș County. Kelemen was born in Târgu Mureș,

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, on 4 May 1948. He died on 8 January 2022, at the age of 73.

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1948 births 2022 deaths People from Târgu Mureș Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania politicians Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania MEPs MEPs for Romania 2007 {{Romania-MEP-stub