Tamás Sneider (born 11 June 1972) is a Hungarian politician, who was leader of the

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from May 2018 to January 2020. Before that he was one of the vice-presidents of the party from 2009 to 2018. He was a member of the

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from 2010 to 2022. Between 2010 and 2014 he served as the president of the Committee of Youth, Social and Family Policies of the Hungarian National Assembly. He was one of the deputy speakers of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2020 and member of the Committee on Social Welfare.

Origins

Sneider's family has been living in Aldebrő in

Heves County Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest (county), Pest, Nógrád (county), Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and ...

for 300 years. His ancestors were workers of

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origin. His grandfather fought in

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on the Eastern front and got wounded in the Battle of Torda.

Education

He graduated in 1991 from Agricultural Technical College of Eger. Since 2009 he studied history at Esterházy Károly University,

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Political career

In 1992 he became a founding member of the Association of Patriotic Youth. Sneider was a leading figure of the far-right underground

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movement under the ''

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'' Roy in the early 1990s.Ami a Jobbik képviselőjelöltjeinek bemutatásából kimaradt
Hetek.hu, 2010. január 22. According to a court verdict, he physically assaulted a man of

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origin. The court sentenced him to suspended prison at the time. In 2000 he joined MIÉP and became the president of the Eger branch. Between 2002 and 2006 he was the member of the city council of Eger. Between 2002 and 2007 he was the president of MIÉP in Heves county. Sneider participated in the occupation of

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Headquarters during the

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. In 2007 he became the member of Jobbik and was elected as the president of the party's local branch in Eger. Since 2009 he has become the party's president in Heves county. In the 2009 EP elections he ran on the 16th place of Jobbik's list. In 2009 he was elected as the vice-president of the party. Since 2010 he has been the member of the Parliament. Currently, he is the member of the Committee on Social Welfare. In 2014 he was elected as the vice-speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly with great majority. Since 2018 he was the president of Jobbik. He was considered the moderate candidate to be the new leader of the party in the Jobbik congress, which followed the party losing the

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. He ran against László Toroczkai. Sneider won the leadership with 53.8% of the votes. In May 2020, he left the parliamentary group of Jobbik. In February 21 2021, he joined to the Civil Response political party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sneider, Tamas Living people Hungarian Justice and Life Party politicians Jobbik politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022) 1972 births People from Eger Hungarian people of German descent Hungarian nationalists