Péter Polt (born 6 September 1955) is a Hungarian jurist,

Chief Prosecutor of Hungary The Prosecutor General ( hu, Legfőbb ügyész) is the official charged with prosecuting cases at a national level in Hungary. The Prosecutor General is elected by a qualified majority of the parliament to 9-year terms (formerly 6 years), has a ...

from 2000 to 2006 and since 2010.

Biography

He finished his secondary studies at the Veres Pálné Grammar School in

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. He graduated from the

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of the

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

in 1980. Besides that he participated in postgraduate courses in the

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and the

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. He worked for the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic. He became an assistant lecturer in the ELTE Department of Criminal Law in 1983. He was promoted to adjunct in 1985. He worked as a lawyer between 1985 and 1995 after completing the professional examination in 1992. He served as an advisor for the Ministry of Justice from 1990 to 1995. He received

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from the

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in 2010. Polt joined

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán. It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...

in 1993. He was a parliamentary candidate during the 1994 general election but did not secure a mandate. He was appointed general deputy of Katalin Gönczöl, the

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for Civil Rights in 1995. As a result, he left the Fidesz party. In 2000 he was elected Chief Prosecutor by the

National Assembly of Hungary The National Assembly ( hu, Országgyűlés, lit=Country Assembly) is the parliament of Hungary. The unicameral body consists of 199 (386 between 1990 and 2014) members elected to 4-year terms. Election of members is done using a semi-proporti ...

, replacing

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. During his 6-year term he has been criticized several times. His response to the interpellations were repeatedly voted down in the plenary sessions. He was replaced by Tamás Kovács in 2006. After that he became Head of the Criminal Affairs Department of the General Prosecutor's Office.

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nominated Polt to the position of Chief Prosecutor in 2010. The Fidesz-

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parliamentary majority elected him for a 9-year term under the new rules. In 2011 Polt was elected Chairman of an organisation of

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chief prosecutors. Polt told MTI over the phone that the organisation would provide recommendations to European prosecution offices about what priorities to pursue. He said another aim of the lobby group, set up four years ago, was to debate European issues affecting prosecutors. Péter Polt was re-elected as Chief Prosecutor for another 9-year term by the Fidesz supermajority of the National Assembly on 4 November 2019. He received 134 votes, 24 MPs voted against him, and there were three invalid votes.

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*''MTI Ki Kicsoda 2006'',

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, Budapest, 2005, p. 1380.
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