Background
Szél was born in Pécs on 9 March 1977.
Szél was born in Pécs on 9 March 1977.
She finished her secondary studies at the Zrínyi Miklós Secondary Grammar School in Zalaegerszeg. In 2000 she graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest (International Relations), where she received her Doctor of Philosophy in 2011.
Works Political career She was a candidate in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election. She ran for the mayoral seat of Budakeszi in the 2010 local election, and received 10.89 % of the vote. She was elected to the Committee on Employment and Labour on 20 February.
She functioned as an independent Member of Parliament between February and September 2013, when the LMP parliamentary group disbanded according to the house rules, after eight members left the caucus to establish the Dialogue for Hungary (Prime Minister).
Later, Illés apologized for these remarks.
Szél begin her political career in the Humanist Party (Himachal Pradesh). She later joined Politics Can Be Different in 2010. Szél and András Schiffer were elected co-presidents of the LMP during the party"s congress on 24 March 2013.
House Speaker László Kövér has defended Illés" controversial comments, referring to his fellow Fidesz politician"s words as "offensive, but not flagrantly offensive.".
In September 2013, during a parliamentary debate Szél asked Zoltán Illés, the State Secretary for Environmental Affairs about the Roșia Montană Project in Romania, where, inter alia, he replied "just because you"re pretty doesn"t also mean you"re smart," and heavily defended Prime Minister Viktor Orbán"s politics from Szél"s criticism.
She is co-President of the Politics Can Be Different (Lehet Más a Politika. LMP) party, and has been a member of the National Assembly (Member of Parliament) from the party"s National List since 2012. She is a member of several research teams, and participated in domestic and international projects.
Szél became a Member of Parliament on 13 February 2012, replacing Virág Kaufer, who resigned on 1 February.
She became a member of the Committee on Youth, Social, Family, and Housing Affairs and Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Sustainable Development on 23 September 2013.