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Senate District 23 – Prague 8
23rd district of Czech Senate consists primarily of Prague 8. The current senator representing the district is Lukáš Wagenknecht. Senators Elections 1996 2000 2006 2012 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Senate district 23 - Prague 8 Senate districts in the Czech Republic, 25 Districts of Prague, Prague 8 Elections in Prague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukáš Wagenknecht
Lukáš Wagenknecht (born 24 September 1978) is a Czech economist, auditor and politician serving as a Senate of the Czech Republic, Senator of the Czech Republic representing Senate district 23 – Prague 8, Prague 8 district since October 2018. He is a member of the Czech Pirate Party. Wagenknecht also co-founded the auditing organization and think tank Good Governance and was a contributor to ''Neovlivní.cz'', a publisher of investigative journalism. Political beginnings Lukáš Wagenknecht was born on 24 September 1978 in Pardubice, northern-central Czech Republic. He studied at the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Pardubice from 1998 to 2003 and subsequently started his professional career as an internal auditor at the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Ministry of the Interior, in 2003. From February 2014 to June 2015, Wagenknecht served as the first Deputy Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic in the field of financial managemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Beneš
František () is a masculine given name of Czech origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include: *Frank Daniel (František Daniel) (1926–1996), Czech film director, producer, and screenwriter *Frank Musil (František Musil) (born 1964), Czech professional ice hockey player and coach *František Albert (1856–1923), Czech surgeon and writer *František Balvín (born 1915), Czech Olympic cross-country skier * František Bartoš (other), multiple people **František Bartoš (folklorist) (1837–1906), Moravian ethnomusicologist and folklorist **František Bartoš (motorcycle racer) (born 1926), Czech Grand Prix motorcycle road racer * František Běhounek (1898–1973), Czech scientist, explorer, and writer * František Bělský (1921–2000), Czech sculptor *František Bílek (1872–1941), Czech Art Nouveau and Symbolist sculptor and architect *František Bolček (1920–1968), Slovak professional football player *Frant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate Districts In The Czech Republic
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the elder" or "old man") and therefore considered wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class. However the Roman Senate was not the ancestor or predecessor of modern parliamentarism in any sense, because the Roman senate was not a legislative body. Many countries have an assembly named a ''senate'', composed of ''senators'' who may be elected, appointed, have inherited the title, or gained membership by other methods, depending on the country. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of "sober second thought" to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected. Most senates have asymmetrical duties and powers compared with their respective lower house meaning they have special dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Cibulka
Petr Cibulka (born 27 October 1950) is a Czech politician and dissident. He is the founder and leader of the minor Right Bloc political party. Communist era Cibulka was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. As a former member of Charter 77, Cibulka was imprisoned multiple times during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Prior to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Cibulka had been arrested three times, and spent a total of four years in prison for distributing non-official cultural and musical material. During the Velvet Revolution, he was again arrested and imprisoned, but was released as crowds gathered in front of the prison in which he was held and demanded his release. StB archives disclosure In the early 1990s, Cibulka published material from still-classified StB State Security ( cs, Státní bezpečnost, sk, Štátna bezpečnosť) or StB / ŠtB, was the secret police force in communist Czechoslovakia from 1945 to its dissolution in 1990. Serving as an intelligence and counte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Paroubek
Jiří Paroubek (; born 21 August 1952) is a Czech politician, who was the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2005 to August 2006. He was also the leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) from 2006 until his resignation following the 2010 legislative election. Early life and career Paroubek was born in Olomouc and attended Jan Neruda Grammar School. He entered politics in 1970 at the age of 18, joining the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, a member party of the Czechoslovak National Front. He reached the lower levels of the party hierarchy before leaving the party in 1986. Paroubek spent his one-year military service as an army food services supervisor in the southern Bohemian city of Prachatice. After graduating in 1976, Paroubek worked as a manager for several state companies including ( cs, Restaurace a jídelny). In 1979, as an executive committee member of the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, one of the puppet parties of the Communist regime, he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four-Coalition
The Four-Coalition ( cs, Čtyřkoalice), also translated as the Coalition of Four or Quad-Coalition, abbreviated to 4K, was a liberal centre-right political alliance in the Czech Republic between 1998 and 2002. The four member parties were: * Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL), an established, large Christian democratic party * Freedom Union (US), a new, large conservative liberal party that split from the Civic Democrats * Democratic Union (DEU), an established, small liberal party * Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA), an established, small liberal conservative party The 4K was formed after the creation of the Opposition Agreement by the Czech Social Democratic Party and Civic Democratic Party in the aftermath of the 1998 election to the Chamber of Deputies. The coalition aimed to provide 'real opposition' to the government.Hanley (2008), p. 144 The parties first participated together in the 1998 Senate election, achieving conside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiřina Voňková
Jiřina is a Czech given name for females which may refer to: *Jiřina Bohdalová (b. 1931), actress and TV personality *Jiřina Hauková (1919–2005), poet and translator * Jirina Marton (born 1946), Czech-born Canadian artist and illustrator *Jiřina Nekolová (1931-2011), figure skater *Jiřina Petrovická (1923–2008), film actress *Jiřina Ptáčníková (b. 1986), pole vaulter * Jiřina Šejbalová (1905-1981) actress * Jiřina Steimarová (1916–2007), film and television actress * Jiřina Štěpničková (1912–1985), actress *Jiřina Švorcová (1928 –2011), actress and pro- Communist activist *Jiřina Třebická Jiřina Třebická (1 November 1930 – 23 January 2005) was a Czech dancer and theatre and film actress. Career Her artistic career began first as a dancer in regional theaters. Since 1947, she worked in urban theatres in Most and České Bu ... (1930– 2005), dancer and actress. See also * Jiří (other) * Jiri (other) {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Vyskočil
Ivan Vyskočil (born 21 May 1946 in Prague) is a Czech actor. He starred in the film '' Poslední propadne peklu'' under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982. Selected filmography * ''The Tailor from Ulm'' (1978) * ''The Young Man and Moby Dick ''The Young Man and Moby Dick'' ( cs, Mladý muž a bílá velryba) is a 1979 Czechoslovakian drama film directed by Jaromil Jireš. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Ivan Vyskočil as Bretislav Laboutka ...'' (1979) * '' Poslední propadne peklu'' (1982) * '' Smrt krásných srnců'' (1986) References 1946 births Living people Czech male television actors Czech male film actors Czech male stage actors Male actors from Prague 20th-century Czech male actors 21st-century Czech male actors Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Recipients of the Thalia Award {{CzechRepublic-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Bohemia And Moravia
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( cs, Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM) is a communist party in the Czech Republic. As of 2021, KSČM has a membership of 28,715, and is a member party of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL in the European Parliament, and an observer member of the European Left Party. Sources variously describe the party as either left wing or far left on the political spectrum. It is one of the few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe to have not dropped the ''Communist'' title from its name, although it has changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989. For most of the first two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the party was politically isolated and accused of extremism, but it has moved closer to the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). After the 2012 Czech regional elections, KSČM began governing in coalition with the ČSSD in 10 regions. It has never been part of a govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Battěk
Rudolf Battěk (2 November 1924 – 17 March 2013) was a Czech sociologist, politician, and political dissident during Czechoslovakia Communist era. Biography Battěk co-founded the Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN) in 1968, which promoted human rights. KAN was banned by the Soviet Union following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia later in 1968. Battěk was arrested and imprisoned on two occasions for activities against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. He spent ten years imprisoned by Communist authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. Battěk was a signatory of Charter 77, which criticized the Communist regime for rejecting human rights. He also joined the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. In 1989, Battěk re-entered politics following the Velvet Revolution. He joined the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), but was expelled from the party in June 1990. Battěk became a member of the Association of Social Democrats after his expuls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Palečková
Alena Palečková (born 28 April 1947) is a Czech politician and zoologist. A member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Palečková served as Senator for Prague 8 from the establishment of the role in 1996 until 2012, when she did not run for reelection and was replaced by Daniela Filipiová. During her last two years in the senate, she served as Vice-President. Palečková was a Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ... between 1 May and 19 July 2004, before the country's first election. References 1947 births Women MEPs for the Czech Republic Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) Senators Charles University alumni Living people Politicians from Prague {{CzechRepublic-MEP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Democratic Alliance
The Civic Democratic Alliance ( cs, Občanská demokratická aliance, ODA) was a conservative-liberal political party in the Czech Republic, active between 1989 (founded shortly after the Velvet revolution) 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. History The ODA was established in 1989 by a group of intellectuals as a conservative-liberal party, based on ideas often expressed in The Salisbury Review. The other motive was personal antipathy to Václav Klaus and his party Civic Democratic Party (ODS). In 1992 legislative election, ODA obtained over 300,000 votes (5,93 per cent of all votes) and gained 14 seats in Czech National Council. It became part of right-wing coalition (First government of Václav Klaus) together with the ODS, Christian and Democratic Union (KDU–ČSL) and Christian Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
