József Szájer (born 7 September 1961) is a retired Hungarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) of the Fidesz party.

[4] Szájer studied at Bibó István College and graduated as legal expert from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1986.

Receiving a scholarship from the Soros Foundation, he also attended Balliol College, Oxford, from 1986 to 1987 and undertook research at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1989.

[5] The committee recommended several notable changes to the constitution, including a proposal to allow parents to vote in elections on behalf of their under-age children, and an article banning abortion.

[6] In 2003, Szájer joined the Convention on the Future of Europe and was an observer member of the European Parliament, ahead of Hungary's EU accession.

[7] In 2009, having been re-elected, he was appointed head of the Hungarian EPP delegation (until 2011) and chief whip and vice-chairman of the European People's Party group (until 2020).

Prime Minister and party leader Viktor Orbán told Magyar Nemzet: "what our fellow member József Szájer has done does not fit into the values of our political community.

[15] Fellow MEPs, including Márton Gyöngyösi (Jobbik), Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise), and Terry Reintke (Alliance 90/The Greens), accused Szájer and Fidesz of hypocrisy, given the party's stances on LGBT issues.

[16][17] According to András Fekete-Győr, the leader of the opposition party Momentum Movement, the incident revealed the "complete moral bankruptcy of Fidesz".

In 2015, Alliance of Free Democrats member Klára Ungár, who is openly lesbian, claimed that Szájer and another Fidesz politician Máté Kocsis were gay.