Loránt Vincze was born in 1977 in Târgu-Mureș (Marosvásárhely), and he is an ethnic Hungarian from Romania.A Member of the European Parliament since 2019, he was re-elected in 2024 on the list of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ).He serves as the Spokesperson of the EPP Group on Constitutional Affairs. He also works on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, focusing on fundamental rights, the fight against organised crime, and trafficking in human beings. Additionally, he is a member of the Committee on Security and Defence and the Inter-parliamentary delegations for relations with the United States and Türkiye.He has been working in European minority protection for over a decade, also as Co-Chair, and since 2025 Chair of the Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages. From 2016 to 2025, he served as President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), the largest umbrella organisation representing autochthonous national minorities in Europe. He remains the Speaker of the FUEN Working Group of Hungarian Communities (MKM).He is also the International Secretary of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) and Vice-President of the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement of Romania (RMKDM).He studied journalism and holds an MA in public administration and e-government from the University of Bucharest. Between 1997 and 2009, he worked as a radio journalist and manager at various Hungarian media outlets in Romania.