Anna Orosz | |
Office: | Leader of the Momentum Movement (interim) |
Term Start: | 10 October 2021 |
Term End: | 21 November 2021 |
Predecessor: | András Fekete-Győr |
Successor: | Anna Donáth |
Office1: | Deputy Mayor of Újbuda |
Term Start1: | 13 October 2019 |
Term End1: | 2 May 2022 |
Term Start2: | 2 May 2022 |
Birth Date: | 2 June 1989 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Party: | Momentum |
Alma Mater: | Humboldt University (MSc) |
Honorific Suffix: | DM |
Anna Orosz (born June 2, 1989, Budapest) is a Hungarian economist and politician, Member of Parliament since 2022. From March 2017 to May 2018 she was a member of the board of the Momentum Movement. From October 2019 local government representative Újbuda, she became the deputy mayor of Újbuda.[1] On 11 October 2021, during the 2nd round of the Hungarian Opposition Primary, she took over the management of Momentum from András Fekete-Győr. In the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election, she was elected as MP to represent Budapest 2nd constituency in the National Assembly.
Orosz is the daughter of Csaba Orosz, an associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Between 2007 and 2011 she attended the BSc in International Management at the Corvinus University of Budapest. She was then an MSc student in economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2013 she worked as an analyst at the Budapest Institute.
Since 2015, she has been an activist in the Momentum Movement. In early 2017, as a member of the movement's leadership, she was one of the faces of the NOlimpia campaign. On March 4, 2017, she was elected a member of the party's presidency at the movement's renewal general assembly. In 2017, according to Forbes magazine, she was the 8th most influential Hungarian woman in public life. As they were not elected to the Parliament in the 2018 elections, the party's presidency, including Anna Orosz, resigned on 5 May 2018.[2]
In November 2018, she became an analyst and communications associate at Political Capital.
On July 15, 2019, she announced that she would return to politics, and as a result of the opposition coalition, she became a candidate for the Momentum Movement in Budapest XI. district (Újbuda). She was elected a representative in the 2019 Hungarian municipal elections.[3]
On October 31, she became a member of the Momentum Movement faction in the district council, and was also elected as one of the deputy mayor of Újbuda. On June 8, 2020, she was elected to the party's new seven-member presidency.
In the 2021 Hungarian Opposition Primary, she was elected as a joint opposition candidate in Budapest No. 2. for the upcoming general election. From 10 October 2021, after the resignation of András Fekete-Győr, she became the interim leader of the Momentum Movement.[4] She ran for the party leadership election on 21 November 2021, where she acquired 28.9 percent of the vote and came to the second place after Anna Donáth.[5] Orosz was elected MP for Újbuda (Budapest 2nd constituency) in the 2022 parliamentary election, defeating Fidesz–KDNP candidate István Simicskó. She became a member of the parliament's Committee on Sustainable Development and Economic Committee.[6]