Béla Markó

Béla Markó (born 8 September 1951) is a Romanian politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity. He is married with three children. He is reportedly, a follower of reformed Christianity. The former leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania in the second cabinet of Emil Boc from 2009 to 2012; he had also been Minister of State in the first cabinet of Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between 2004 and 2007, in charge of culture, education and research and European integration.

Markó has been a senator since 1990, and was the leader of the UDMR from 1993 to 2011. He competed in the 2004 Romanian presidential election, and ranked fourth with 5.1% of the votes. Provided by Wikipedia