Rozália Ökrész

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

The native form of this personal name is Ökrész Rozália. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Rozália Ökrész
Ökrész Rozália
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
1 December 2020
Personal details
Born (1957-11-02) 2 November 1957
Political partyAlliance of Vojvodina Hungarians

Private career

Ökrész is a graduated economist living in Temerin.[1] She became the director of Magyar Szó (English: Hungarian Word), the leading Hungarian-language newspaper in Vojvodina, in 2012 and remained in this role until her resignation on 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

Local politics (2004–16)

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] 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.[9][10] She served in the local assembly for the term that followed and was not a candidate for re-election in 2016.

Parliamentarian (2020–present)

Ökrész appeared in the sixteenth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[11] 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.[12][13] 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; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Finland and Portugal.[14]

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.[15] She is now 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.[16]

References
  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. Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 2 (25 April 2012), p. 11.
  10. ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2012., Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 11, 45.
  11. 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), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.
  12. 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.
  13. "ÚJRA TELJES LÉTSZÁMMAL DOLGOZIK A VMSZ KÖZTÁRSASÁGI PARLAMENTI FRAKCIÓJA", Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 3 June 2022.
  14. ROZÁLIA ÖKRÉSZ, Archived 2021-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 June 2022.
  15. "Ko su kandidati Saveza vojvođanskih Mađara-Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség za poslanike", Danas, 18 February 2022, accessed 28 May 2022.
  16. ROZÁLIA ÖKRÉSZ, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 January 2023.
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