Edita Pfundtner

Edita Pfundtner was born in Bratislava on 30 January 1973. She belongs to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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, this time as a replacement for Andrej Hrnčiar.^[5] She served the remainder of her term as an independent MP, having left Most-Híd after the 2012 elections.^[3]

In 2018, she joined the government as a State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice.^[4] In 2019 she unsuccessfully ran for the Justice of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia.^[3] From 2020 to 2022 she served as the Director of the Center for International Protection of Children and Youth.^[6] In 2022 she again joined the government as a State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice^[2] and in May 2023 as a State Secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.^[7]