Gábor Grendel

Gábor Grendel (born 15 July 1980) is a Slovak journalist and politician. Since 2016 he has served as a Member of the National Council. In addition, he has been a Deputy Speaker of the Council since 2020. Between 2017 and 2019, he was the Chairman of the NOVA party.

Early life Grendel was born on 15 July 1980 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) to an intellectual family of Hungarian ethnicity. His father, Lajos Grendel, was a prominent writer and his mother, Ágota Grendel, a journalist.

In 2003, he graduated in Journalism and Hungarian language at the Comenius University. In 2010, he became the spokesman for the Interior Affairs minister Daniel Lipšic.

Political career Grender was among the founders of the New Majority (NOVA) party headed by Lipšic. In the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election, NOVA ran in coalition with the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) movement. Grender was elected an MP. He retained his seat in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, once again on the joint list with OĽaNO.

In 2017, he succeeded Lipšic as the Chairman of NOVA. He resigned in 2019 due to disagreements with other party leaders about strategic direction of the party.