László Zakó

László Zakó (born 16 December 1959) is a Hungarian mining engineer and former politician, who was a member of the National Assembly (MP) from 1998 to 2002, and from 2010 to 2014. He was a politician of the right-wing Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party (FKGP), then far-right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) and Jobbik.

Professional career Zakó was born in Zalaegerszeg in 1959, as the son of oil company director Vilmos Zakó and economist Mária Sáfrány. He finished his elementary studies at his birthplace and Szolnok. He graduated from the Varga Katalin Secondary School of Szolnok in 1978. He spent one year of military service in Marcali. He studied at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc (present-day University of Miskolc), where he earned a degree of mining engineering in 1984.

He was employed as a drilling engineer at the Szeged Plant of the Petroleum Exploration Company, and then he became a drilling supervisor at the Szeged Mining Plant of MOL Rt. in 1989.

Political career As a candidate of FKGP, he was elected Member of Parliament for Nagykanizsa (Zala County Constituency II) in the second round of the 1998 Hungarian parliamentary election, with the support of Fidesz. He became a vice-chairman of the parliament's economic committee, and was also a member of the committee of youth and sports. As a representative of government minister József Torgyán, he was a member of the Zala County Regional Development Council, the Microcredit Committee of the Zala County Enterprise Development Foundation, and the West Transdanubian Regional Development Council from 1999 to 2001.

Zakó left the FKGP parliamentary group in June 2001. After a six-month period as an independent MP, he joined the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) parliamentary group in December 2001. He simultaneously joined the party itself too. He secured a parliamentary mandate via the Jobbik's Zala County regional list in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election. He served as a member and vice-chairman of the committee of youth and sports. serving in this capacity until his retirement in March 2025.