Mikuláš Peksa
Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986 in Prague) is a Czech biophysicist, activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 election.
Mikuláš Peksa | |
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Peksa in 2019 | |
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 21 October 2017 – 6 June 2019 | |
Fourth vice chairman of the Czech Pirate Party | |
Assumed office 24 April 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Prague, Czech Republic | 18 June 1986
Nationality | Czech |
Political party | Czech Pirate Party European Pirate Party Greens/EFA |
Alma mater | Charles University |
Life and work
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 of the Czech Republic.[2] In the 2019 European election, he was elected 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]
See also
References
- 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.
External links
Media related to Mikuláš Peksa at Wikimedia Commons - Mikuláš Peksa on Czech Pirate Party website