Born in London,England and of Czech descent,Marek would be the only Czech-speaking MP during his tenure.[2] He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School and at King's College London where he earned a BSc in Mathematics in 1962,and a PhD in Mathematics in 1965. He became a lecturer in applied mathematics at Aberystwyth University.
Political career
Marek was elected a member of Ceredigion District Council in 1979 and served until 1983;he was chair of its finance sub-committee in the year 1982–83.
As a supporter of devolution,he chose to move to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999,and stood down from the UK Parliament in 2001. In the Assembly he became increasingly known as a maverick. In 2000,he was elected as Deputy Presiding Officer against the candidate preferred by the Labour leadership. This move,and his frequent criticisms of the Labour-led Wrexham County Borough led to his deselection as the Labour Party's candidate for the National Assembly elections of 1 May 2003.[3]
Marek is one of three Welsh MPs or AMs to win a constituency as both a party candidate and an independent,following S. O. Davies who was MP for Merthyr Tydfil from 1934 until his death in 1972,who was deselected by the local Labour Party on grounds of age prior to the 1970 general election but ran against the official candidate as an independent and won;and Peter Law who was barred from contesting his seat for Labour due to an all-woman shortlist being imposed [8]
Wrexham AFC
In 2006,Marek was appointed as Vice President of Wrexham A.F.C. by then owners Nev Dickens and Geoff Moss. He remained in the position until the club passed into the ownership of the Wrexham Supporters Trust.
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