László Kövér is a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician. He was a founding member of Fidesz

Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union

The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union is a major conservative party in Hungary. At the 2010 election in Hungary, Fidesz-KDNP won a two-thirds majority of seats by gaining 52% of the votes, with Fidesz winning 227 seats and KDNP winning 36...

 from 1988, and he served as Minister without portfolio for the Civilian Intelligence Services during the Viktor Orbán

Viktor Orbán

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 administration. In 2000 he was appointed leader of the party but Kövér resigned from his position in the next year.

He was elected Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary on 22 July 2010. Kövér took the position on 6 August, after his predecessor, Pál Schmitt

Pál Schmitt

Pál Schmitt is the current President of Hungary. He was elected President of Hungary in a 263 to 59 vote in the Parliament of Hungary and was sworn in on 2010....

, replaced László Sólyom

László Sólyom

László Sólyom is a Hungarian political figure, lawyer, and librarian who was President of Hungary from 2005 to 2010. Previously he was President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary from 1990 to 1998....

 as President of Hungary.