Tamás Sneider

Tamás Sneider
MP
Tamás Sneider in 2017
President of Jobbik
Assumed office
12 May 2018
Preceded by Gábor Vona
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
14 May 2010
Member of Parliament
for Aldebrő
Personal details
Born (1972-06-11) 11 June 1972
Eger, Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Political party MIÉP (2000–07)
Jobbik (since 2007)
Children
  • Erik
  • Márk
  • Kitti
Alma mater Eszterházy Károly University
Occupation Politician
Profession Winemaker, Farmer

Tamás Sneider is a Hungarian politician, who has been leader of the Jobbik since May 2018. 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. Since 2014, he is a deputy speaker of the National Assembly and member of the Committee on Social Welfare.[1]

Since 2018 he is the president of Jobbik.[2] He was considered the moderate candidate to be the new leader of the party in the Jobbik congress, which followed the party losing the Hungarian parliamentary election, 2018. He ran against Lászlo Toroczkai. Sneider won the leadership with 53.8% of the votes.[3]

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.[4]

Personal

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

Controversies

  • His political opponents have claimed that Sneider was active in the far-right skinhead movement during the 90s, including leading a violent cell in Eger. Sneider has dismissed these claims.
  • According to the press he actively took part in the 2006 riots in Budapest.
  • In 2014 Sneider told he would ask the Historical Archive of the State Security Organizations to provide him all the documents concerning him and immediately publish them.

References

  1. ↑ "Az Országgyűlés tisztségviselői – Országgyűlés". parlament.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Zrt., HVG Kiadó (12 May 2018). "Sneider Tamás a Jobbik új elnöke". hvg.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  3. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-jobbik/hardliners-in-hungarys-jobbik-demand-return-to-far-right-roots-idUSKCN1IN1MW
  4. ↑ "Sneider Tamás". Jobbik.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 7 May 2018.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Gábor Vona		 President of Jobbik
2018–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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