Rozália Ökrész

Rozália Ökrész ( sr-Cyrl, Розалија Екрес, 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).

Private career

Ökrész is a graduated economist living in Temerin. 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. 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.

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. The party won three seats, and she was not elected.

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

Parliamentarian (2020–24)

Ökrész appeared in the sixteenth position on the VMSZ's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election. 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. 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 finance committee and the labour committee, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Finland and Portugal.

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. 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. 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."Ko je na listi SVM za parlamentarne izbore u Srbiji"
N1, 8 November 2023, accessed 20 April 2024. 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.

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1957 births
Living people
People from Temerin
Hungarians in Vojvodina
Serbian journalists
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Substitute members of the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative
Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)