Gábor Gál (born 22 November 1974 in

Šaľa Šaľa (, ; , ) is a town in Šaľa District within Nitra Region in south-western Slovakia. Geography Šaľa is located on the Danubian Lowland on both banks of the Váh River, around 65 km from Bratislava and 30 km from Nové Zámky. Be ...

) 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 Bratislava () 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 named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

in 1998 and then worked as an attorney. In 2006 he 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. In 2009 he co-founded the Most–Híd 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 populist Ordinary People and Independent Personalities–NOVA–Christian Union–Change from Below (OĽaNO–NOVA–KÚ� ...

, in which his party did not get enough votes to pass the representation threshold. In May 2022 the Slovak police accused Gál of acts of corruption during his political career.

Personal life

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

References

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