Pest County Regional List. She was elected member of the Economic and Information Technology Committee on 30 May 2006. Selmeczi was appointed Commissioner in defense of people's savings in October 2010. Selmeczi was re-elected MP via Fidesz–KDNP national list in the 2014 and 2018 parliamentary elections. She is a member of the Legislative Committee and of the Welfare Committee since 2014. She served as Chairperson of the latter committee from 2014 to 2018. Controversy Népszava learned in May 1999 that state secretaries Selmeczi, István Balsay, and MP Béla Gyuricza sent a letter to U.S. Senators Jesse Helms and Joe Biden. The letter, signed by 31 Fidesz MPs, asked the senators to appoint Steven M. Jones, a high-ranking financial manager of Lockheed Martin, as the next United States Ambassador to Hungary. CNN reported on the event, and there was considerable pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to do something. The scandal even reached the White House and the United States State Department. Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright expressed their total confidence in Ambassador Peter Tufo, who still had two years to go. Balsay and Selmeczi resigned in 1999. References 1965 births Living people Hungarian jurists Hungarian journalists Hungarian women journalists Women members of the National Assembly of Hungary Fidesz politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1994–1998) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2010–2014) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2014–2018) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026) Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian women politicians 21st-century Hungarian women politicians