Karolína Peake (born 10 October 1975), née Kvačková, is a

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politician and lawyer who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2013.

Career

She was a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 1998, during her studies at university. In 1999 she graduated from the Faculty of Law at

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and married Charles Peake, an Australian manager of Czech-Chinese origin. After this, she worked as a trainee lawyer in the Czech branch of

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. She gave birth to her sons Sebastian, and Theodor, with whom she took five years

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. Thereafter, she began to be involved in local politics, including campaigns to save a local park and to extend local children's playgrounds. In 2006, she was elected to the

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for Public Affairs. Peake was elected to the

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in the 2010 election, representing Public Affairs (VV), but left in April 2012 with seven other MPs. The party she founded after breaking away from VV was named LIDEM, which means "for the people" in Czech, and is also based on the first letters of "Liberal Democrats". She was appointed

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in December 2012, but was dismissed by Prime Minister

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eight days later, due to criticism of her rapid replacement of ministry deputies. Peake is a member of the

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, an NGO which aims to create connections between future leaders and public figures.

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Career

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