Krisztina Morvai
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Krisztina Morvai MEP |
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Krisztina Morvai in 2009
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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| Born |
June 22, 1963 Budapest, Hungary |
| Political party | Elected on Jobbik ticket |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Eötvös Loránd University King's College London |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer |
Krisztina Morvai (born 22 June 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer and nationalist politician. She is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), having been elected on the list of the political party Jobbik – Movement for a Better Hungary in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Although Morvai is not a member of Jobbik, the party already declared her as its future nominee for the position of the President of Hungary.
Morvai was born in Budapest in 1963 to parents Klári Fekete and Miklós Morvai. After graduating from ELTE Apáczai Csere János High School, she went to Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, getting a law degree cum laude. After graduation she gained qualifications to practice as a judge in Hungary, but instead of working in that capacity she went on to teach at the university, currently as an associate professor. In 1989 she was the first recipient of a British Government scholarship for students in central Europe and was presented with her award by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher personally. She used the scholarship to study advanced law at King's College London gaining a Master of Laws degree. In 1993–1994 she taught law in the United States at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a Fulbright scholar. She primarily researches the area of penal law, dealing with the retrospective administration of justice, the question of abortion, victim's rights in criminal procedure, the dignity and rights of the HIV positive, child abuse and sexual exploitation, the problem of prostitution, discrimination and domestic violence. She is author of the book Terror a családban (Terror in the family) a book on domestic violence.
In the 1990s, Morvai worked for the European Commission of Human Rights and between 2003 and 2006 she was a member of the Women's Anti-discrimination Committee of the United Nations.
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