Tamás Sneider


Tamás Sneider is a Hungarian politician, who was leader of the Jobbik from May 2018 to January 2020. Before that he was one of the vice-presidents of the party from 2009 to 2018. He is a member of the parliament since 2010. 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 for 300 years. His ancestors were workers of German origin. His grandfather fought in World War II 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, Eger.

Political career

In 1992 he became a founding member of the Association of Patriotic Youth.
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.
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 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election. 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.

Personal

Tamás Sneider is married and has three children: a daughter, Kitti and two sons, Erik and Márk.

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