# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pal-vastagh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:40.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pal-vastagh"
name: "Pál Vastagh"
slug: "pal-vastagh"
description: "Pál Vastagh 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."
tagline: "Hungarian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vastagh_P%C3%A1l.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.268358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Vastagh"
    title: "Pál Vastagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC"
    title: "پال ڤاستاج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Vastagh"
    title: "Pál Vastagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Vastagh"
    title: "Pál Vastagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Vastagh"
    title: "Pál Vastagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastagh_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Vastagh Pál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1402315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump