Ondřej Dostál (born 25 January 1979) is a Czech lawyer and politician who was elected as a

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. He is the 1st vice-chair of Stačilo!.

Early life and career

Dostál was born in

Chomutov Chomutov (; ) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 47,000 inhabitants. There are almost 80,000 inhabitants in the city's wider metropolitan area. The historic city centre is well preserved and is protected as ...

, and later moved to

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and Mirošov. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Charles University, before studying in Austria and the United States. A lawyer specializing in

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law, Dostál received the Lawyer of the Year award in 2006 and has been teaching at Charles University since 2003. In 2008, he was the defense lawyer for in its . Dostál was a member of the

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between 2021 and 2022. He was part of the

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government team until resigning in December 2021, stating that their values had shifted away from his own. Dostál considers himself a

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, advocating for less government control. In spring 2023, he spoke at anti-

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demonstrations organized by Jindřich Rajchl.

References

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