Hunor Kelemen
| Hunor Kelemen | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 23 December 2009 – 7 May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
Emil Boc Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu |
| Preceded by | Theodor Paleologu |
| Succeeded by | Mircea Diaconu |
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In office 5 March 2014 – 24 November 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta |
| Preceded by | Gigel Ştirbu |
| Succeeded by | Csilla Hegedüs |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania for Harghita County |
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Assumed office December 2000 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 18, 1967 Cârţa, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania |
| Alma mater |
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca |
| Profession |
Veterinarian Philosophy teacher |
| Website | http://www.kelemenhunor.ro/ |
Hunor Kelemen (born October 18, 1967, Cârţa) is a Romanian politician and Hungarian language writer. The current president of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies since 2000, and was nominated as his party's candidate for the 2009 presidential election, receiving 3.8% of the valid votes. From December 2009 to May 2012 he was Romania's Minister of Culture in the Emil Boc and Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu governments, a role he has reprised between March and October 2014 in the government headed by Victor Ponta.
In 2000, Hunor Kelemen was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Commander rank, and in 2008 Hungary's Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit. In 2012, he married Eva Czezar; the civil ceremony took place at Cârţa Town Hall, while the religious wedding was held at St. Michael's Church in Cluj-Napoca.
An ethnic Hungarian, he was born in Cârţa, at that time part of the Magyar Autonomous Region. He completed primary school in Ineu-Ciuc, and the gymnasium in his native locality, while practising ice hockey in the school's team. After completing high school in Târgu Mureş, he enrolled in the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, graduating as a veterinarian in 1993, and then in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Babeş-Bolyai University, graduating in 1998.
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