Béla Markó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Béla Markó

Romanian politician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Târgu Secuiesc, Covasna County, Romania

Profession: writer, poet, politician, translator

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Béla Markó (born September 8, 1951 in Târgu Secuiesc) is a Romanian politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity.
The former leader of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he is also the Deputy Premier in the Emil Boc government (which came to power on December 23, 2009); he had also been Minister of State in the Tariceanu cabinet between 2004 and 2007, in charge of culture, education and research and European integration. Markó has been a senator since 1990, and was the leader of the UDMR from 1993 to 2011.
He competed in the 2004 Romanian presidential election, and ranked fourth with 5.1% of the votes.