Béla Bugár

Béla Bugár is a Slovak mechanical engineer, retired politician and political pundit of Hungarian ethnicity. He served as Acting Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia in 2006. He also served as Deputy Speaker in three nonconsecutive terms and as a member of the National Council for nine consecutive terms from 1992 to 2020. He is considered the most influential figure in the history of Hungarian minority politics since the establishment of independent Slovakia in 1993.