Prague City Hall (

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: ''Magistrát hlavního města Prahy'') is the

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and

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office of

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, the capital of the

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. It is formed by the Chief Executive of Prague City Hall and other employees of the City of Prague included in this body. Prague City Hall performs tasks assigned by

Prague City Assembly The Prague City Assembly ( cs, Zastupitelstvo hlavního města Prahy (ZHMP)) is the elected legislative body of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The capital city of Prague is a separate type of territorial self-governing entity a ...

or Prague City Council, which are democratically elected. As of 2017, it employed 2,091 people and had a budget of 65,193 billion

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(2,58 billion

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). Employees of Prague City Hall are located mainly in two buildings within the Prague city centre – in the New City Hall and in the

Škoda Palace Škoda Palace ( cs, Škodův palác) is the current site of the Prague Town Hall. The late Art Deco building in Jungmannova Street was built in 1929 for the Škoda company using a design by the prominent architect Pavel Janák ( Adria Palace, Cz ...

. Its scope is defined by the Act on the City of Prague in the Czech law and the City Decree on the Statute of the City of Prague. On September 23, 2019, the municipality announced a new selection procedure, to which candidates could apply until October 31, 2019. According to information from Lidové noviny, former mayor Adriana Krnáčová, among others, applied for the selection process. 6 applicants participated in the selection process. Krnáčová did not appear for the written tests, which are part of the selection process, because she was abroad on all the dates offered. Jiřina Vorlová resigned from the selection process. The remaining 4 applicants were thus invited to an oral interview: Tomáš Havel, Marta Kopecká, Karel Bláha and Radka Říhová.

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* {{authority control Organizations with year of establishment missing Government agencies of the Czech Republic City and town halls in the Czech Republic Organizations based in Prague History of Prague Politics of Prague Prague 1

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