Mikuláš Peksa
Mikuláš Peksa | |
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 Peksa in 2021 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic | |
| In office 21 October 2017 – 6 June 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | František Navrkal |
| Fourth vice-chairman of the Czech Pirate Party | |
| In office 24 April 2017 – 5 November 2019 | |
| Chairman of the European Pirate Party | |
| Assumed office 11 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Markéta Gregorová |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1986 Prague, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) |
| Political party |  Czech Republic:Czech Pirate Party  EU Party:European Pirate Party EU Parliament group:Greens/EFA |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986 in Prague) is a Czech biophysicist, activist and Czech Pirate Party politician. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election, and sits as a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
Early career and the Czech Pirate Party[edit]
Peksa studied biophysics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, focusing on nuclear magnetic resonance, and worked as a researcher and a software engineer.[1]
Peksa joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2013. In the 2017 Czech legislative election, he was elected a Member of the Chamber of Deputies.[2]
European Parliament[edit]
Election[edit]
In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament along with Marcel Kolaja and Markéta Gregorová.[3] Upon joining the European Parliament, he left his position of Deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019.[4] He joined the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
Committee assignments[edit]
Peksa is a member of the following European Parliament committees:[5]
- European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
- Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
References[edit]
- ^ Mikuláš Peksa (in Czech) pirati.cz.
- ^ Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 20.10. – 21.10.2017 (in Czech). volby.cz
- ^ Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 24.05. – 25.05.2019 (in Czech). volby.cz
- ^ "Pirát Peksa zvolený do europarlamentu se vzdal mandátu v české sněmovně. Nahradí ho analytik Navrkal". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- ^ "Home | Mikuláš PEKSA | MEPs | European Parliament".
External links[edit]
Media related to Mikuláš Peksa at Wikimedia Commons- Mikuláš Peksa on Czech Pirate Party website
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