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Peter Eckstein-Kovacs
Senator (UDMR)
Born: July 5, 1956, Cluj-Napoca
Religion: Roman-Catholic
Nationality: Magyar
Citizenship: Romanian
Studies
- 1975 – Law School of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Professional activity
- 1980-1981 - legal counselor
- 1981-1999 - lawyer with the Lawyers' Bar in Miercurea Ciuc and Cluj-Napoca
Political activity
- 1992-1996 - Local councilor, local councilor of the Cluj- Napoca city
- 1992-1996 - U.D.M.R Member of Chamber of Deputies, Cluj Ward - member of
the Committee for Human Rights, Denominations and Ethnic Minorities
- 1996-2000 - U.D.M.R Senator for Cluj-Napoca, Member of the Committee for
Human Rights and Legal Committee for Appointments, Discipline, Immunities
and Validations
- Founding member and President of the Liberal Platform within U.D.M.R
- 1999 – 2000 - Minister by the Prime Minister for Ethnic Minorities
- Since November 2000 - Member of the Senate, Cluj Ward; Member of Legal
Committee for Appointments, Discipline, Immunities and Validations
Public activity
- Founding member of several civic associations ( CIVITAS; TRANZIT; LINIE)
- Co-author of law drafts (the Local Public Finance Law Bill, the Public
Property Law Bill)
- Participant to conferences and symposia on issues related to human rights
organized by the National Minorities Council and the Helsinki Committee
- Netherlands/the Hague/ Strasbourg; NGO’s role in the legislative
process, seminar organized by Pro Democratia and N. D. I, Bucharest, 1994
- Seminar on human rights, Sanga-Saby, Sweden, 1993
- Seminar for the practitioners in the human rights field, Hague,
Netherlands, 1992
Domains of Concern
- Human rights and local public administration
Foreign languages
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