Zoltán Balczó | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start: | 1 July 2014 |
Term End: | 1 July 2019 |
Term Start1: | 1 July 2009 |
Term End1: | 13 May 2010 |
Constituency1: | Hungary |
Office2: | Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly |
Term Start2: | 14 May 2010 |
Term End2: | 5 May 2014 |
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start3: | 18 June 1998 |
Term End3: | 14 May 2002 |
Term Start4: | 14 May 2010 |
Term End4: | 20 June 2014 |
Term Start5: | 8 July 2019 |
Term End5: | 1 May 2022 |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1948 |
Birth Place: | Nyíregyháza, Hungary |
Party: | Hungary Jobbik Non-Inscrits |
Spouse: | Zsófia Balczó |
Alma Mater: | University of Budapest, Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
Zoltán Balczó (born 1 January 1948) is a Hungarian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary between 2009–2010 and 2014–2019. He is a member of Jobbik. He is a former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary.[1] He was a Member of Parliament from 1998 to 2002, from 2010 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2022.
His older brother is András Balczó, the Olympic champion.
After the 2010 elections, he was appointed one of the deputy speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary. As a result, he was replaced by Béla Kovács in the European Parliament. He was elected MEP again in the 2014 European Parliament election; as a result, he resigned from his national parliamentary mandate in June 2014.