Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993,he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic,and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.
The president of the Czech Republic is the head of state of the Czech Republic and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.
The Civic Democratic Alliance was a conservative-liberal political party in the Czech Republic,active between 1989 and 2007. The ODA was part of government coalitions until 1997 and participated in transformation of the Czech economy. The party was supported by president Václav Havel who voted for it in 1992 and 1996 election.
The Civic Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative and soft eurosceptic political party in the Czech Republic. It holds 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,and is the second strongest party by number of seats following the 2021 election. It is the only political party in the Czech Republic that has always been represented in the Chamber of Deputies.
Marián Čalfa served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia during and after the Velvet Revolution in 1989,as well as de facto acting President for 19 days,and was a key facilitator of the smooth transfer of power from Communist rule to a new democratic representation.
Cyril Svoboda is a Czech politician,who was leader of the Christian and Democratic Union –Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) in 2001–2003 and 2009–2010,and a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1998–2010. During his political career he held several ministerial positions,including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He founded the Diplomatic Academy in Prague in 2011 and is currently lecturing at several universities in Prague.
Petr Pithart is a Czech politician,lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.
Mirek Topolánek is a Czech politician and business manager who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009 and the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) from 2002 to 2010. Between 2006 and 2009,Topolánek was the member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) and senator from Ostrava from 1996 until 2004. After leaving the politics in 2010,Topolánek has been active in the electric power industry.
Alexandr Vondra is a Czech politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic from 2010 to 2012 under Prime Minister Petr Nečas and has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms is a document enacted in 1991 by the Czechoslovak Federative Republic and currently continued as part of the constitutional systems of both the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Petr Nečas is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013,and as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1993 to 2013.
The first cabinet of Prime Minister Václav Klaus was in power from 2 July 1992 to 4 July 1996. The Czech Republic became an independent sovereign state on 1 January 1993 and thus this government was the first one after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. It consisted of Civic Democratic Party (ODS),Christian and Democratic Union –Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL),Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) and Christian Democratic Party (KDS).
Vladimír Dlouhý is a Czech economist and politician.
Early legislative elections were held in the Czech Republic on 25 and 26 October 2013,seven months before the constitutional expiry of the elected parliament's four-year legislative term.
Indirect presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January and February 2003 to elect a new President. The Parliament of the Czech Republic failed to elect a candidate on the first two ballots on the 15 and 24 January. However,on the third round of the third ballot on 28 February,Václav Klaus was elected.
Ivan Pilip is a Czech politician and economist who was finance minister from June 1997 to July 1998,after having been the Minister of Education,Youth and Sport from 1994 to 1997.
JiříDienstbier Jr. is a Czech politician,lawyer and the Senator for Kladno from 2011 to 2020,representing the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). He previously served as Minister for Human Rights,Equal Opportunities and Legislation in Bohuslav Sobotka's cabinet,and at various points he has been Deputy Leader of ČSSD,a member of the Chamber of Deputies,and shadow minister of Justice. He was also the ČSSD candidate for the first direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic in 2013.
Antonín Baudyš was a Czech academic and politician who served as defense minister from 1993 to 1994. He was the first defense minister of the Czech Republic.
Czech political crisis in 1997–1998 started as a result of irregularities in finances of Civic Democratic Party (ODS). It peaked with so-called Sarajevo atentate,an attempt to remove Václav Klaus from leadership of Civic Democratic Party. The attempt occurred during Klaus' visit in Sarajevo. Crisis led to split in ODS and snap election in 1998.
TomášJežek was a Czech economist and politician who served on the Czech National Council from 1990 to 1992. Concurrently,he was also minister responsible for privatization under Petr Pithart. Between 1993 and 1996,Ježek was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
