Mikuláš Peksa

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
In office
11 November 2019 – 23 June 2024
Preceded byMarkéta Gregorová
Succeeded byFlorian Roussel
Personal details
Born (1986-06-18) 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 materCharles University

Mikuláš Peksa (born 18 June 1986) 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

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

Pirate Party

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

On 17 March 2025, Peksa joined the pan-European party Volt Czechia.[6]

References

  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.
  6. ^ "Bývalý místopředseda Pirátů Peksa vystoupil ze strany. Přechází do Volt Česko". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Czech News Agency. 17 March 2025.
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