Mikuláš Peksa
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Mikuláš Peksa | |
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 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 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 | |
| In office 11 November 2019 – 23 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Markéta Gregorová |
| Succeeded by | Florian Roussel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1986 Prague, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) |
| Political party |  Czech Republic:Volt Czechia (2025–present)  EU Party:Volt Europa (2025–present) EU Parliament group:Greens/EFA |
| Other political affiliations | Czech Republic: Czech Pirate Party (2013–2025) EU Party:European Pirate Party (2013–2025) |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986 in Prague) is a Czech biophysicist and politician for Volt Europa. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Pirate Party in the 2019 election, and sat with the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
Early career
[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]
Political career
[edit]Pirate Party
[edit]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]
In the 2019 European election, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament along with Marcel Kolaja and Markéta Gregorová,[3] and stood down as a deputy of the Czech Parliament on 6 June 2019.[4] He joined the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group.
In the European Parliament, Peksa was a member of two European Parliament committees:[5] the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
Volt
[edit]On 17 March 2025, Peksa joined the pan-European party Volt Czechia.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mikuláš Peksa". Czech Pirate Party (in Czech).
- ^ "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 20.10. – 21.10.2017". volby.cz (in Czech).
- ^ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 24.05. – 25.05.2019". volby.cz (in Czech).
- ^ "Pirát Peksa zvolený do europarlamentu se vzdal mandátu v české sněmovně. Nahradí ho analytik Navrkal". Czech Radio (in Czech). 6 June 2019.
- ^ "Mikuláš PEKSA". European Parliament.
- ^ "Bývalý místopředseda Pirátů Peksa vystoupil ze strany. Přechází do Volt Česko". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Czech News Agency. 17 March 2025.
External links
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Media related to Mikuláš Peksa at Wikimedia Commons- Mikuláš Peksa on Czech Pirate Party website
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- Czech Pirate Party MEPs
- Living people
- MEPs for the Czech Republic 2019–2024
- Czech Pirate Party MPs
- 1986 births
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2017–2021)
- Politicians from Prague
- Czech software engineers
- Biophysicists
- Charles University alumni
- Scientists from Prague
- Volt Europa politicians