Július Buchta

Mayor of Revúca is Július Buchta. He was born on 28 December 1973 in Revúca. He is married and has two children.

After finishing primary and secondary school he served in the military. After three years in London, he returned to Slovakia and started to work as a technician for two years in a military company.

In 2001 he started his career at a local mining company SMZ Jelšava. In 2002 Buchta was promoted as technician. He graduated as a technical engineer in chemistry and refractory materials in 2007. In the same year he was promoted to Head of the research and development department.

Buchta started his political career as a local patriot involved in few small local projects as volunteer. In 2017 he was elected as member to a district parliament of Banská Bystrica region. In 2018 Buchta was elected Mayor of Revúca.

Besides these two main jobs he is also involved in board of local tourism unit, active in local group for regional projects and Head of local association RZMOS - SG covering 39 villages and three cities.