Pál Vastagh | |
Order: | Minister of Justice of Hungary |
Term Start: | 15 July 1994 |
Term End: | 8 July 1998 |
Predecessor: | István Balsai |
Successor: | Ibolya Dávid |
Office2: | Member of the National Assembly |
Term Start2: | 5 February 1990 |
Term End2: | 28 June 1994 |
Birth Date: | 23 September 1946 |
Birth Place: | Nagyszénás, Second Hungarian Republic |
Profession: | politician, jurist, diplomat |
Children: | 3 |
Party: | MSZMP, MSZP |
Pál Vastagh (born 23 September 1946) is a Hungarian politician and jurist, who served as Minister of Justice between 1994 and 1998. He joined to the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) in 1966. During the democratic changes in Hungary (1989–1990) he supported the communist rule and the Workers' Militia which Vastagh called the "people's army". In 1989 he was a founding member of the Hungarian Socialist Party. He became ambassador to Ottawa, Canada in 2006; as a result of that he resigned from his parliamentarian seat.