Edina Tóth (born 11 March 1975) is a Hungarian politician currently serving as a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

for

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal. Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as ...

Education

Tóth graduated from

Pázmány Péter Catholic University Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE) ( (''PPKE'')) is a private university in and near Budapest, Hungary, belonging to the Catholic Church in Hungary, Catholic Church and recognized by the state. While PPKE takes its name after an insti ...

in 1998 and from Századvég School of Politics in 1999.

Career

Tóth was vice-president of Fidelitas from 1996 until 2003 and vice-president of

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from 1999 until 2001. She then worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MEP

József Szájer József Szájer (born 7 September 1961) is a retired Hungarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) of the Fidesz party. He resigned as MEP on 29 November 2020 (effective at the end of December) after having been caug ...

until 2004. In 2004, she started working in the

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as a political advisor to the

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as a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and from 2007 until 2019 on the Committee on Industry, Energy and Research. In 2019, Tóth was elected MEP. She is currently a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Subcommittee on Public Health and the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula.

References

Living people MEPs for Hungary 2019–2024 Fidesz MEPs Fidesz politicians Women MEPs for Hungary 1975 births {{Hungary-MEP-stub