Anna Júlia Donáth


Anna Júlia Donáth is a Hungarian politician. She was elected as a Momentum Movement Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European parliamentary election. Donáth is the vice president of the party.

Early life and career

Anna Júlia Donáth was born on 6 April 1987 in Budapest, Hungary to László Donáth and Ildikó Muntag. She is the youngest of three siblings. Her father László Donáth is a pastor, and a former member of parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party. Her paternal grandfather, Ferenc Donáth, is of Jewish descent, and was a lawyer and one of the three secretaries of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Her early education was at Veres Péter High School in Békásmegyer, Budapest. She studied sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and migration and ethnic studies at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating, she completed an internship at the European Commission, before returning to Hungary to become a project manager for the non-governmental organization, Menedék. She joined Momentum Movement in 2016, and became its vice president in June 2018. Donáth was a candidate for the centrist party in the 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election. The party did not win any seats in the election.
In December 2018, she participated in a protest against the Hungarian government's new labour law dubbed by opponents as the 'slave law' which raised the overtime yearly cap for workers from 250 to 400 hours, and allowed businesses three years instead of one year to pay for the overtime. Donáth was arrested at the protest, and later released.

European Parliament

Donáth stood as a candidate for Momentum Movement in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was second on her party's list, and was elected as one of its two MEPs in Hungary. She represents the third generation of her family to enter political office. Donáth is a member of the Renew Europe party group. In the European Parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and is part of the delegation to the EU–Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.
After becoming an MEP, she gained immunity from prosecution for her participation in the December 2018 labour law protest, however Donáth chose to waive it on 29 May 2019.