Béla Bugár

The native form of this personal name is Bugár Béla. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Béla Bugár (born 7 July 1958) is a Slovak politician of Hungarian descent.^[1] He was a member of the Slovak parliament from 1992 to 2020, briefly serving as its acting Speaker in 2006. He was the former leader of the political party Most–Híd.

Béla Bugár
Bugár in 2021
Speaker of the National Council
Acting
In office 7 February 2006 – 4 July 2006
President	Ivan Gašparovič
Preceded by	Pavol Hrušovský
Succeeded by	Pavol Paška
Deputy Speaker of the National Council
In office 23 March 2016 – 20 March 2020 Serving with Andrej Hrnčiar, Martin Klus, Martin Glváč and Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová
Speaker	Andrej Danko
Personal details
Born	(1958-07-07) 7 July 1958 (age 67) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Political party	Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement (before 1998) Party of the Hungarian Community (1998–2009) Most–Híd (2009–2021) Alliance (2021–2022) Most–Híd 2023 (2023–present)
Alma mater	Slovak University of Technology

Life and career

He was the leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition from 1998 until 2007, with Pál Csáky as his successor. Before the formation of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition in 1998, Bugár was the chairman of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement.^[2][3] Bugár has been an MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic since 1992. He was its acting speaker from 7 February 2006 to 4 July 2006. Béla Bugár announced that he was going to retire from politics by 2010. However, on 30 June 2009 he founded a new political party, Most–Híd, whose goal was to stand for the Hungarians' interests in Slovakia while striving to work together with Slovaks.^[4] He is a member of the Most–Híd 2023 party since 2023.^[5]