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Mikuláš Peksa

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Mikuláš Peksa
Peksa in 2021
Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic
In office
2 July 2019 – 15 July 2024
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
In office
21 October 2017 – 6 June 2019
Succeeded byFrantišek 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 byMarkéta Gregorová
Personal details
Born (1986-06-18) 18 June 1986 (age 38)
Prague, Czech Republic
(then Czechoslovakia)
Political party Czech Republic:
Czech Pirate Party
European Union EU Party:
European Pirate Party
European Union EU Parliament group:
Greens/EFA
Alma materCharles 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

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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

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Election

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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

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Peksa is a member of the following European Parliament committees:[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Mikuláš Peksa". Czech Pirate Party (in Czech).
  2. ^ "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 20.10. – 21.10.2017". volby.cz (in Czech).
  3. ^ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 24.05. – 25.05.2019". volby.cz (in Czech).
  4. ^ "Pirát Peksa zvolený do europarlamentu se vzdal mandátu v české sněmovně. Nahradí ho analytik Navrkal". Czech Radio (in Czech). 6 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Mikuláš PEKSA". European Parliament.
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