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Lucia Yar

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Lucia Yar
Lucia Yar in 2024
Member of the European Parliament
for Slovakia
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Personal details
Born
Lucia Mrázová

(1987-05-15) 15 May 1987 (age 37)
Snina, Czechoslovakia
Political partyProgressive Slovakia
Other political
affiliations
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
Alma materComenius University

Lucia Yar (née Lucia Mrázová; born 15 May 1987) is a Slovak journalist and politician of Progressive Slovakia. She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]

Biography

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Lucia Yar was born on 15 May 1987 in Snina.[2] She is of Rusyn and Goral ancestry.[3]

Yar has been a lecturer at Comenius University and the European Security and Defence College. She also worked for the European Commission and was an advisor at the Ministry of Defence.[4]

During the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election campaign, Yar led a campaign Circle a woman, advocating for increasing the female representation in the National Council of Slovakia through preferential votes for female candidates.[5]

From 2017 until announcing her candidacy in the 2024 European Parliament elections, she worked as a journalist in the Slovak version of Euractiv.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Výsledky eurovolieb 2024: Kompletný zoznam zvolených europoslancov". Sme. 9 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Lucia YAR". www.europarl.europa.eu. 15 May 1987. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  3. ^ "O Lucii - Lucia Yar" (in Slovak). 6 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Rozhovor. Europoslankyňa Yar: Bratislavu východ nezaujíma". Rusyn.sk. 10 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Krúžkujte vo voľbách ženy, nabádajú. Očakávame kritiku, no aj veda je na našej strane, hovorí Lucia Yar (podcast)". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 31 July 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Zmena vo vedení redakcie EURACTIV Slovensko". euractiv.sk (in Slovak). 1 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.