Lukáš Černohorský (born 19 November 1984) is a Czech politician and IT analyst. He served as chairman of the

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from August 2014 to April 2016 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament the from 2017 to 2021. In January 2018, Černohorský was appointed chairman of the

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Commission of Inquiry.

Early life

Černohorský was born in Dlouhá Lhota in the

Příbram District Příbram District () is a Okres, district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Příbram. Administrative division Příbram District is divided into three Districts of the Czech Republic#Municipalities ...

, before moving to

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

with his parents. In 2004, he graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Electrical Engineering. He subsequently graduated in measurement and control technology at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava in 2010. Černohorský worked as an IT analyst and later as a test engineer until 2012. He was involved as a spokesman and member of the petitions committee, which works to preserve three historic buildings in

known as Ostravica-Textilia.

Political career

In the municipal elections in 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ostrava City Council, and later also failed to be elected in regional elections in 2012 in the Moravian-Silesian Region, as leader of the Pirate list. He ran for the Pirates in the Moravian-Silesian Region in elections to the

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in 2010 and in 2013, but was not elected. Černohorský was elected chairman of the

at a national forum in Prague on 2 August 2014, receiving 78 votes. In the 2014 municipal elections, he was the lead candidate for the ''We are Ostrava'' coalition a coalition of the

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and Pirates, but the group did not get into the city council. Černohorský served as party chairman until April 2016. In the

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, Černohorský attempted to run in District No. 73 -

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, but his candidacy was rejected due to not meeting the legal age limit. He was the leader of the Pirate list in the Moravian-Silesian Region in the 2016 regional elections, but again was not elected. In the

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, Černohorský was the leader of the Pirates in the

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, and was elected as a deputy. In the 2018 Czech municipal elections, he ran for the Pirates for the Ostrava City Council, but was unsuccessful. In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2021, he was the lead candidate for the

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coalition in the Moravian-Silesian Region, but was not re-elected.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cernohorsky, Lukas 1984 births Living people People from Příbram District Leaders of the Czech Pirate Party Technical University of Ostrava alumni Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2017–2021) Czech Pirate Party MPs