Richard Brabec (born 5 July 1966) is a Czech politician, who served as the minister for the Environment from 2014 to 2021, and deputy prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2019.

Career

A former manager in the chemical industry ( Unipetrol, Spolana Neratovice and Lovochemie), Brabec first entered the

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in October 2013, elected for ANO 2011. In January 2014, he became the Czech Minister for the Environment, in the government of Bohuslav Sobotka, and remained in this post under Prime Minister

Andrej Babiš Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech politician and businessman of Slovak descent who served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021. Babis previously served as the Minister of Finance and deputy Prime Minister ...

until December 2021. From December 2017 to April 2019 he served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.

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