Olga Richterová (born 21 January 1985) is a Czech linguist and politician. She was the vice-chairwoman of the

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from January 2018 to January 2022 and is a member of the

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since the 2017 legislative election.PhDr. Olga Richterová, Ph.D.
psp.cz.

. Richterová was re-elected in the October

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on a joint list of the

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and became a vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Life and career

Richterová was born on 21 January 1985 in

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in southern

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and grew up in Choltice in the Pardubice Region. She studied linguistics, English and German translation at the

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in Prague. Richterová joined the

in 2014 and has been a council member of

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district in 2014 to 2018 prior to being elected Deputy of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the 2017 legislative election. Her political agenda has been housing legislation,

social policy Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize social policy and public policy to be two separate, competing approaches for the same public interest (similar to MD a ...

and

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policy. She serves as the vice-chairwoman of the parliamentary Committee on Social Policy from 19 December 2017. Czech Pirate Party press conference 9 July 2019

Czech Pirate Party press conference 9 July 2019

She was elected vice-chairwoman of the party in January 2018. In January 2020, she was re-elected as party vice-chairwoman. Richterová led the

in the Prague region in the October

and was re-elected. Subsequently, she became a vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Personal life

Richterová is a member of the

Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB; , ČCE) is the largest Czech Protestant church and the second-largest church in the Czech Republic after the Catholic Church. It was formed in 1918 in Czechoslovakia through the unification of th ...

,Olga Richterová
ČEMU VĚŘÍM
(in Czech). ''Respekt'' Blog. 7. 2. 2013. is married and has two children.

References

External links

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