Zoltán Pék

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Zoltán Pék
Pék Zoltán
Member of the National Assembly of Serbia
Assumed office
31 May 2012
Mayor of Senta
In office
7 August 2008 – 17 February 2010
Preceded byAttila Juhász
Succeeded byAnikó Širková
Personal details
Born (1962-12-20) 20 December 1962 (age 59)
Senta, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyAlliance of Vojvodina Hungarians

Zoltán Pék (Serbian Cyrillic: Золтан Пек, romanized: Zoltan Pek; born 1962 December 20) is an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Senta from 2008 to 2010 and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012. Pék is a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség, VMSZ).

Early life and career[]

Pék was born in Senta, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the coomunity and later graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Novi Sad in Subotica, focusing on business information systems. He is an authorized accountant and auditor.[1][2]

Politician[]

Pék joined the VMSZ in 2002.[3] He was a civilian member of Senta's budget and finance committee in the 2004–08 term and served as the committee's president.[4]

He received the 123rd position on the VMSZ's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election and the forty-third position on the VMSZ-led Hungarian Coalition's list in the 2008 parliamentary election.[5][6] The lists won three and four mandates, respectively, and Pék was not included in his party's assembly delegation on either occasion.[7][8] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Pék could have been awarded a mandate on both occasions despite his relatively low list position, though in fact he was not.)[9]

Pék also appeared in the third position on the Hungarian Coalition's list in Senta for the 2008 Serbian local elections, which were held concurrently with the parliamentary election.[10] The list won a plurality victory with twelve out of twenty-nine mandates, and Pék was awarded a seat in the municipal assembly.[11][12] When the assembly convened on 7 August 2008, he was chosen as the municipality's mayor.[13] He remained in this role until February 2010, when shifting political alliances allowed the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) to form a new administration without the VMSZ.[14] Pék returned to the municipal assembly on 15 June 2010 and led the VMSZ delegation for the next two years.[15][16]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Pék received the fifth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won five mandates.[17] The Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) and its allies won the election and formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS); the VMSZ served in opposition in the parliament that followed. Pék became a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) during the 2012–14 term, succeeding fellow party member Elvira Kovács.[18]

Pék again received the fifth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2014 election and was re-elected when the list won six mandates.[19] He was promoted to the fourth position on the party's list for the 2016 election was returned for a third term even as the list fell to four mandates.[20] He continued to serve in Serbia's delegation to PABSEC during these parliaments and was at one time a deputy chair of that organization's culture, education, and social affairs committee.[21][22][23] During the 2016–20 Serbian parliament, Pék was also a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan and Romania.[24] The VMSZ began supporting Serbia's SNS-led administration after the 2014 election and has continued doing so to the present time.

The VMSZ led a successful drive to increase its voter turnout in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and won a record eleven seats. Pék, who once again appeared in the fourth list position, was elected to a fourth term.[25] He remains a member of the finance committee and is also a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the judiciary committee; a member of the subcommittee for the consideration of reports on audits conducted by the state audit institution; a member of the human rights committee's working group for initiatives, petitions and proposals; a member of Serbia's delegation to the PABSEC; and a member of the friendship groups with Romania and Slovenia.[26]

Pék also appeared in the third position on the VMSZ's list for Senta in the 2020 Serbian local elections and returned to the municipal assembly when the list won a plurality victory with thirteen out of twenty-nine mandates.[27][28] He currently serves in both the republican and local parliaments.

References[]

  1. ^ ZOLTAN PEK, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 17 May 2018.
  2. ^ Zoltan Pek, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 23 November 2021.
  3. ^ ZOLTAN PEK, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 17 May 2018.
  4. ^ Önkormányzat: A KÖZSÉGI KÉPVISELŐ-TESTÜLET ÁLLANDÓ BIZOTTSÁGAI Archived 2005-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Senta, 6 March 2005, accessed 23 November 2021.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Савез војвођанских Мађара - Јожеф Каса), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 October 2021.
  6. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 МАЂАРСКА КОАЛИЦИЈА - ИШТВАН ПАСТОР), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 October 2021.
  7. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  8. ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  9. ^ Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 43 Number 4 (27 April 2008), p. 39.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 43 Number 4 (12 May 2008), pp. 48-49.
  12. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 43 Number 9 (11 July 2008), p. 98.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 43 Number (8 August 2008), p. 104.
  14. ^ "Smenjen predsednik Opštine Senta", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 17 February 2010, accessed 23 November 2021.
  15. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 45 Number 10 (15 June 2010), p. 258.
  16. ^ ZOLTAN PEK, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 17 May 2018.
  17. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 VAJDASАGI MAGYAR SZОVETSЕG - PАSZTOR ISTVАN - САВЕЗ ВОЈВОЂАНСКИХ МАЂАРА-ИШТВАН ПАСТОР), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  18. ^ Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (31 May 2012 legislature), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  19. ^ 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), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  20. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (6 Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István - Савез војвођанских Мађара-Иштван Пастор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Participation of Mr. Zoltan Pek, Vice-Chairman of the PABSEC Cultural, Educational and Social Affairs Committee, in the Meeting of Ministers in charge of Culture of the BSEC Member States, Belgrade, 23 November 2018", Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, accessed 23 November 2021.
  22. ^ Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (16 April 2014), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  23. ^ Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (3 June 2016 legislature), accessed 23 November 2021.
  24. ^ ZOLTÁN PÉK, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 May 2018.
  25. ^ ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség-Pásztor István – Савез војвођанских Мађара – Иштван Пастор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 October 2021.
  26. ^ ZOLTÁN PÉK, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 November 2021.
  27. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Senta), Volume 55 Number 22 (10 June 2020), p. 415.
  28. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Senta), Volume 55 Number 23 (22 June 2020), p. 4.
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