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{{short description|Slovenian politician}}
[[File:Maria Pozsonec crop.jpg|thumb|upright|Mária Pozsonec (2008)]]
'''Mária Pozsonec''' (16 January 1940 &ndash; 3 April 2017) was a [[Slovenia]]n [[politician]] of [[Hungarian people|Hungarian ethnicity]]. Between 1990 and 2008, she served as representative of the [[Hungarians in Slovenia|Hungarian national community]] in the [[National Assembly of Slovenia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dz-rs.si/index.php?id=92&docid=P060|title=Maria Pozsonec|website=Republika Slovenija|language=sl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180534/http://www.dz-rs.si/index.php?id=92&docid=P060|archive-date=30 September 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>
She was born to Hungarian parents in the village of [[Dolga Vas, Lendava|Dolga Vas]] ({{langx|hu|Hosszúfalu}}) near [[Lendava]], in what was then the [[Drava Banovina]] of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] (now in Slovenia). She attended the high school in [[Subotica]] ([[Serbia]]), and studied pedagogy at the [[University of Maribor]], in Slovenia. She worked as an elementary school teacher in her native region of [[Prekmurje]]. During the 1980s, she emerged as an activist of the Hungarian minority in Slovenia.
In the first free elections in Slovenia in April 1990, she was elected to the [[National Assembly (Slovenia)|National Assembly]] as the representative of the Hungarian national community. She was re-elected four times, in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. In 2008, she was defeated by [[László Göncz]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.siol.net/slovenija/volitve_2008/novice/2008/09/maria.aspx|title=Maria Pozsonec: Volilni izid me je presenetil|date=22 September 2008|website=Slovenija|language=sl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923121242/http://www.siol.net/slovenija/volitve_2008/novice/2008/09/maria.aspx|archive-date=23 September 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>
She served as vice-mayor of Lendava from November 2006 till November 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.delo.si/clanek/135527|title=Ferenc Horvath je novi predsednik madžarske skupnosti|date=1 July 2011|work=Delo|access-date=2017-04-14|language=sl}}</ref>
Pozsonec died on 3 April 2017 at the age of 77.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.sta.si/2374243/long-serving-hungarian-minority-mp-dies-aged-77|title=Long-serving Hungarian minority MP dies, aged 77|date=6 April 2017|website=STA|access-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>
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