Lajos Oláh

Lajos Oláh (born 17 June 1969) is a Hungarian politician and jurist. He was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from 2006 to 2026. He served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Environment and Water from 2008 to 2009, then in the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Energy.

Profession Lajos Oláh was born on 17 June 1969 in Karcag. He finished his elementary and secondary studies in Debrecen. He earned law degree at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1993. He spent a semester during his university years at the Stellenbosch University and the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa. Oláh speaks English and Russian at the negotiation level. He is married, father of two children.

He is co-president of the Great Wall Hungarian–Chinese Friendship Association since 2012. He also established its annual award, the Award for Sino–Hungarian Friendship. He is a member of the Hungarian UN Society, the Hungarian Geographical Society and the International Ragweed Society (IRS).

During the 2010 parliamentary election, Oláh was re-elected MP via MSZP regional list of Hajdú-Bihar County, but the party itself suffered a heavy defeat against Fidesz. Oláh was vice-chairman of the Committee on Sustainable Development between 2010 and 2011. Formally, Oláh was an independent MP between 2011 and 2018. He lost the position of vice-chairman, but retained his membership in the Committee on Sustainable Development until 2014. He narrowly defeated Fidesz candidate Monika Rónaszéki-Keresztes with the margin of 0.6 percent. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2018. Lajos Oláh won the primary election in his constituency. In the parliamentary election held on 3 April 2022, he again became the single member of the constituency, winning 20,561 votes and an absolute majority of 51.39%. He served as a deputy speaker of the parliament from 2022 to 2026. Oláh did not run as individual candidate in the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election, and Democratic Coalition failed to win any mandates, thus he lost his parliamentary seat after 20 years.