Edita Pfundtner
Edita Pfundtner (; born 30 January 1973) is a Slovak lawyer and politician. From 2010 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2018 she was a Member of the National Council. From 2018 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2023 she Served as the State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and the office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Education and legal career Edita Pfundtner was born in Bratislava on 30 January 1973. She belongs to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. She studied law at the Comenius University graduating in 1997. Following her graduation, she worked as an in-house counsel for the Alianz insurance company. In 2004 she joined the bar and became an attorney. Political career From 2003 to 2009 Pfundtner was a member of the Party of the Hungarian Coalition without holding an elected office. In 2009, she was among the founders of the Most–Híd party. In 2010 Slovak parliamentary election, she failed to win a seat, but nonetheless became an MP as a replacement for Rudolf Chmel, who vacated his seat to become the Minister of Culture. She again failed to win a mandate in the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, but rejoined the parliament in May 2014,