Life and career
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 a co-founder 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.
In
the 2009 European Parliament election, he became a member of the European
Parliament.
On
16 April 2012, Áder was appointed by the Fidesz party, and Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán, to become the new President of Hungary after the resignation of
Pál Schmitt. He was elected on 2 May to a five-year term by a vote of 262–40,
and will take office on 10 May 2012. He will be the first president to hold
that office since the new Hungarian constitution took effect on 1 January 2012.
Family
János
Áder is married to Anita Herczegh, who works as a judge. They have three girls
and one boy. Áder's father-in-law, Géza Herczegh, was a judge of the
International Court of Justice at The Hague from 1993 to 2003.
From : www.wikipedia.org
