Karla Šlechtová (born 22 May 1977) is a

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politician and economist who served as

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from December 2017 to June 2018. Previously, she also served as Minister of Regional Development from 2014 to 2017. Šlechtová has also been Member of the

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(MP) since October 2017. In March 2017, she became the first active politician in the Czech Republic to come out as lesbian.

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