János Áder
| János Áder | |
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| President of Hungary | |
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Assumed office 10 May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Viktor Orbán |
| Preceded by | László Kövér (Acting) |
| Speaker of the National Assembly | |
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In office 18 June 1998 – 15 May 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Zoltán Gál |
| Succeeded by | Katalin Szili |
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9 May 1959 Csorna, Hungary |
| Political party | Fidesz |
| Spouse(s) | Anita Herczegh |
| Children | Orsolya András Borbála Júlia |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
János Áder (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈaːdɛr]; born 9 May 1959) is a Hungarian lawyer who has been the President of Hungary since 10 May 2012. Previously he served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and deputy chairman of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety from January to May 2012.
Áder grew up in the small town of Csorna in Győr-Moson-Sopron County. Beginning in 1978, he studied law for five years at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 1986 to 1990, he was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Sociological Research Institute.
Áder, who has a law degree, was an early member of Fidesz (Alliance of Young Democrats), at the time a liberal coalition of democrats (although it has shifted to center-right as of 2012). He served as a party legal expert. Áder was a member of the Opposition Round Table which, in 1989, negotiated an end to single-party rule in Hungary.
In the 1990 and 1994 elections he was head of the Fidesz campaign. He was a member of the Hungarian Parliament (Országgyűlés) from 1990 to 2009, and was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 18 June 1998 to 15 May 2002. He was the leader of the Fidesz caucus opposition from 2002 to 2006. In 2011, he helped draft legislation which changed the role of the Hungarian judiciary, leading the European Commission to bring the matter of Hungarian judicial independence before the European Court of Justice. He also helped draft the legislation which revised Hungarian electoral laws. He served as Deputy Speaker from 9 September 1997 to 17 June 1998 and 18 June 1998 to 15 May 2002.
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