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

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).

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 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

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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