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Rozália Ökrész

The native form of this personal name is Ökrész Rozália. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Rozália Ökrész (Serbian Cyrillic: Розалија Екрес, romanized: Rozalija Ekres; born 2 November 1957) is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2024 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).

Rozália Ökrész
Ökrész Rozália
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
1 December 2020 – 6 February 2024
Personal details
Born (1957-11-02) 2 November 1957 (age 66)
Political partyVMSZ

Private career edit

Ökrész is a graduated economist living in Temerin.[1] She became the director of the Vojvodina Hungarian-language newspaper Magyar Szó (English: Hungarian Word) in 2012 and remained in this role until her resignation in November 2022.[2][3][4][5] She has also worked in Vojvodina's secretariat of education and culture and served on the board of directors of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina.[6]

Politician edit

Local politics (2004–16) edit

Ökrész received the twenty-fourth position on the VMSZ's electoral list for the Temerin municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections.[7] The party won three seats, and she was not elected.[8][9]

She later appeared in the lead position on the party's list for Temerin in the 2012 local elections and was elected when the list again won three seats.[10][11] She served in the local assembly for the term that followed and was not a candidate for re-election in 2016.

Parliamentarian (2020–24) edit

Ökrész appeared in the sixteenth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[12] The list won six seats, and she was not elected.

The VMSZ led a successful drive to increase its voter turnout in the 2020 parliamentary election and won a record nine seats. Ökrész, who appeared in the tenth position on the party's list, was not immediately elected but received a mandate on 1 December 2020 as the replacement for Annamária Vicsek, who had been appointed to a secretary of state position.[13][14] In her first term, Ökrész was a member of the culture and information committee and the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending, and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Finland and Portugal.[15]

She was promoted to the fifth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won five mandates.[16] She served afterward as a member of the culture and information committee and the finance committee, a deputy member of the labour committee, the European integration committee, and the committee on the rights of the child, a member of the subcommittee for the consideration of reports on audits conducted by the state audit institution, a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary dimension of the Central European Initiative, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Croatia, France, and Slovakia.[17] Throughout Ökrész's time in the national assembly, the VMSZ supported Serbia's coalition government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Ökrész received the eighteenth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election.[18] Re-election from this position was not a realistic prospect, and she was not elected when the list won six seats. Her term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024.

References edit

  1. ^ ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István – Савез војвођанских Мађара – Иштван Пастор), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Köztársasági képviselő lett a Magyar Szó igazgatója", Szabad Magyar Szó, 1 December 2020, accessed 3 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Támogatás a kisebbségi médiumoknak és kiadóknak", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 11 February 2021, accessed 3 June 2022.
  4. ^ "November 3-tól már nem Ökrész Rozália a Magyar Szó igazgatója", Szabad Magyar Szó, 1 November 2022, accessed 5 January 2023.
  5. ^ "A jelenlegi összetételű MNT utolsó ülése", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 9 November 2022, accessed 5 January 2023.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine), Volume 67 Number 5 (15 April 2021), p. 1008.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 37 Number 6 (9 September 2004), p. 15.
  8. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 37 Number 12 (26 October 2004), pp. 2-4.
  9. ^ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order while the remaining two-thirds were distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (June 2002) Archived 2021-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 7 April 2024. Ökrész could have been given a mandate despite her low position on the list, but this did not occur.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 2 (25 April 2012), p. 11.
  11. ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2012., Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 11, 45.
  12. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Vajdasagi Magyar Szovetseg - Pasztor Istvan - Савез војвођанских Мађара - Иштван Пастор), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  13. ^ ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (4 Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István – Савез војвођанских Мађара – Иштван Пастор), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.
  14. ^ "ÚJRA TELJES LÉTSZÁMMAL DOLGOZIK A VMSZ KÖZTÁRSASÁGI PARLAMENTI FRAKCIÓJA", Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 3 June 2022.
  15. ^ ROZÁLIA ÖKRÉSZ, Archived 2021-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 June 2022.
  16. ^ "Ko su kandidati Saveza vojvođanskih Mađara-Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség za poslanike", Danas, 18 February 2022, accessed 28 May 2022.
  17. ^ ROZÁLIA ÖKRÉSZ, Archived 2023-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 April 2024.
  18. ^ "Ko je na listi SVM za parlamentarne izbore u Srbiji", N1, 8 November 2023, accessed 20 April 2024.
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