Mikuláš Peksa | |
Party: | Czech Republic
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Birth Date: | 18 June 1986 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czech Republic |
Nationality: | Czech |
Alma Mater: | Charles University |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic |
Term Start: | 2 July 2019 |
Term End: | 15 July 2024 |
Office1: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic |
Term Start1: | 21 October 2017 |
Term End1: | 6 June 2019 |
Successor1: | František Navrkal |
Office2: | Fourth vice-chairman of the Czech Pirate Party |
Term Start2: | 24 April 2017 |
Term End2: | 5 November 2019 |
Office3: | Chairman of the European Pirate Party |
Term Start3: | 11 November 2019 |
Predecessor3: | Markéta Gregorová |
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.
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]
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.
Peksa is a member of the following European Parliament committees:[5]