Karolína Peake (born 10 October 1975), née Kvačková, is a

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politician and lawyer who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2013.

Career

She was a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 1998, during her studies at university. In 1999 she graduated from the Faculty of Law at

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and married Charles Peake, an Australian manager of Czech-Chinese origin. After this, she worked as a trainee lawyer in the Czech branch of Baker & McKenzie. She gave birth to her sons Sebastian, and Theodor, with whom she took five years

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. Thereafter, she began to be involved in local politics, including campaigns to save a local park and to extend local children's playgrounds. In 2006, she was elected to the

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for Public Affairs. Peake was elected to the

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in the 2010 election, representing Public Affairs (VV), but left in April 2012 with seven other MPs. The party she founded after breaking away from VV was named

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, which means "for the people" in Czech, and is also based on the first letters of "Liberal Democrats". She was appointed

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in December 2012, but was dismissed by Prime Minister

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eight days later, due to criticism of her rapid replacement of ministry deputies. Peake is a member of the Prague Society for International Cooperation. The Society existed as a network during dissident times. Several of its members were imprisoned by Communist regimes. It became an NGO in 1997 under the presidency of Vaclav Havel. The aim was - and is - to bring former members of the Secret Police to justice and to fight corruption. The Society also forges connections between future leaders and public figures internationally.

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Career

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