Mária Pozsonec

Mária Pozsonec (16 January 1940 – 3 April 2017) was a Slovenian politician of Hungarian ethnicity.

[1] She was born to Hungarian parents in the village of Dolga Vas (Hungarian: Hosszúfalu) near Lendava, in what was then the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia).

She attended the high school in Subotica (Serbia), and studied pedagogy at the University of Maribor, in Slovenia.

She worked as an elementary school teacher in her native region of Prekmurje.

During the 1980s, she emerged as an activist of the Hungarian minority in Slovenia.