Bence Tuzson
Bence Tuzson is a Hungarian politician serving as Minister of Justice since 2023. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 2014, and was a substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2014 to 2015.
Early life
He was born on 31 January 1972 in Budapest. His mother was an architect while his father was a mechanical engineer. At the age of 17 he joined the Hungarian Democratic Forum, working as a youth policy advisor to József Antall. From 1987 to 1991 he attended Szilágyi Erzsébet Gymnasium, afterwards attending Pázmány Péter Catholic University from 1993 to 1994 in the Faculty of Humanities. During the early 90s he also became a secretary of the MDF committee in District XII, meeting Viktor Orbán at this time through various events.He then studied at the Eötvös Loránd University from 1994 to 1999 in the Faculty of Law. While studying, he simultaneously also pursued his political career, becoming a member of the MDNP in 1996, part of Fidelitas, and vice-president of Districts I and XII. In 1997, through ACYPL, he studied in the United States of America on self-government where he became a Goodwill Ambassador of the city of Houston. In 1998, he became a municipal councillor in District XII of Budapest's municipal body representing Fidesz, a position he held until 2006 for two terms.
After he passed the bar exam in 2003, he ran his own law firm until 2014.