Katerina Demetrashvili | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic | |
| Assumed office 4 October 2025 | |
| Constituency | Prague |
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| Born | 5 April 2003 San Antonio,Texas,U.S. |
| Political party | Czech Pirate Party (2024–) |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
Katerina Demetrashvili (born 5 April 2003) [1] is a Czech politician. [2] A member of the Czech Pirate Party,she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2025 Czech parliamentary election. [3]
Demetrashvili was born in Texas to a Georgian family, [4] and has lived in the Czech Republic since she was a year old. Her father serves as a sniper in the Georgian Legion in the Russo-Ukrainian War. [5] She attended Charles University after graduating from the Music High School in Prague where she led the school parliament. [6] Demetrashvili is a law student and vice-chairwoman of Young Pirates. She is the youngest Pirate elected in the 2025 election. [5]
In October 2025,Demetrashvili received media attention after the online publication of Twitter posts from 2020 and 2021,which included references to drug use and pornography. [7] She described the tweets as adolescent humour,and said she had never taken the drugs mentioned. [8]
In a television interview,Demetrashvili criticized Marek Benda for his 25 years of experience as a member of Chamber of Deputies, [9] saying "Who can political lizard Marek Benda possibly represent when he is so inexperienced and has been sitting in the Chamber of Deputies since he was 21?" [10] A spokesperson for the Civic Democratic Party responded that she should show "humility" given her young age at the time of her election. In the same interview,Demetrashvili described the Russian-Ukrainian war as a means of economic enrichment for the Czech Republic. Her position was criticized by former PM JiříParoubek and some foreign journalists. [11] [12]
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