Ľubomír Petrák (6 August 1961 – 20 February 2021) was a Slovak politician, a member of the

National Council of the Slovak Republic The National Council of the Slovak Republic (, abbreviated to ''NR SR'') is the national parliament of Slovakia. It is unicameralism, unicameral and consists of 150 members, who are elected by universal suffrage under proportional representation ...

for SMER-SD and the mayor of

Hurbanova Ves Hurbanova Ves ( or ) is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1960. Geography The municipality A municipality is usually a s ...

Biography

Petrák graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) () is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science, the only university in ...

Political career

Ľubomír Petrák was the mayor of the small village

in the

Senec District Senec District (''okres Senec'') is a district in the Bratislava Region of western Slovakia. It was established in 1996. The district is largely a bedroom community for Bratislava and is also known for its recreational possibilities, foremost the ...

. In 2002, he became the last chairman of the Party of the Democratic Left ( SDĽ). On 4 December 2004, at the 10th Congress of the SDĽ in

Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Greater Fatra, Veľká Fatra, and t ...

, the dissolution of the party was approved by merging with SMER as of 31 December 2004. He was a member of the

for SMER-SD continuously since 2006. In 2016, he became the chairman of the committee for education, science, youth, and sports, and was a member of the committee for European affairs. Petrák died on 20 February 2021.

References

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