Gábor Gál (born 22 November 1974 in

Šaľa Šaľa (; hu, Vágsellye, german: Schelle) is a town in south-western Slovakia. Geography The town is located on the Danubian Lowland, on both banks of the Váh River, around 65 km from Bratislava and 30 km from Nové Zámky. Except t ...

) is a Slovak politician. From 2018 to 2020 he served as the Minister of Justice. From 2002 to 2018, he was a

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of the National Council.

Background

Gál studied law at the

Comenius University Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...

in 1998. Since graduation, he has worked as an attorney. In 2006 he shortly represented the hate-crime victim Hedviga Malinova.

Political career

In 2002, Gál was first elected into parliament on the list of the

Party of the Hungarian Community The Party of the Hungarian Community ( hu, Magyar Közösség Pártja, sk, Strana maďarskej komunity; SMK-MKP), formerly known as Party of the Hungarian Coalition ( hu, Magyar Koalíció Pártja, sk, Strana maďarskej koalície), was a politi ...

. In 2009 he co-founded the

Most–Híd Most–Híd (, ; from the Slovak and Hungarian words for "bridge") was an inter-ethnic political party in Slovakia. Its programme calls for greater cooperation between the country's Hungarian minority and ethnic Slovak majority. It was one of ...

party, which he represented in parliament until 2018. In 2018, he became the minister of justice, serving until the

2020 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council. The anti-corruption list led by Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) movement emerged as the largest parliame ...

, in which his party failed to pass the representation threshold. In May 2022, the Slovak police accused Gál of acts of corruption allegedly taking place during his political career.

Personal life

Gál is married to Zsuzsanna Gálová, a schoolteacher. They have three children.

References

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