Jana Bobošíková (born 29 August 1964) is a Czech politician. In the

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she was elected a

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for the Independents and remained unaffiliated in the

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. In the

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and

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presidential elections she unsuccessfully ran for the office as

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. She founded Politika 21 in 2006 and

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in 2009.

Early life

She was a member of the

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. In 2012, Czech media noticed that in a TV news report from June 1986, she passed a bouquet of roses to President

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, the Secretary-General of the

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. She later told

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that it had been "an honor". In 1987 she graduated with a master's degree in economics.

Career

From 1989, Bobošíková presented TV programmes on politics and economics, spending most of her television career at

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(ČT). She was appointed Head of News in late 2000, and played a significant role in the Czech TV crisis of January 2001, following which she resigned from ČT and moved to TV Nova, where she worked until 2004. She had already been an adviser to the chair of the

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from 1999, and continued her move into politics in 2004 by standing for the

, elected on the Independents ticket. She was a

(MEP) until 2009. She sat on the

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, was a substitute for the

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, and a member of the Delegation to the EU-

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Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. In 2009, she began cooperating with the Party of Common Sense. She led this

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in the 2009 European election under the name 'Sovereignty'; the list came fifth, winning 4.26% of the vote, just short of the 5% threshold for representation. In 2011, she established her own party,

. Bobošíková ran in the Czech presidential election in 2008 and

. In the first round of the 2013 election, she placed 9th with 2.39% (123,171 votes), and did not qualify for the second round. On 31 March 2025, it was announced that Bobošíková would lead

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in the

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in the

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References

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External links

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Official YouTube Channel of Jana Bobošíková

Suverenita's Web page

Jana Bobošíková passing a bouquet of roses to Secretary General of KSČ comrade Gustáv Husák.
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bobosikova, Jana 1964 births Living people Independent Democrats (Czech Republic) MEPs MEPs for the Czech Republic 2004–2009 Women MEPs for the Czech Republic Prague University of Economics and Business alumni Politicians from Prague Leaders of political parties Czech eurosceptics Czech critics of Islam Candidates in the 2008 Czech presidential election Candidates in the 2013 Czech presidential election Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia presidential candidates Female candidates for President of the Czech Republic Czech Television people