Pavel Zářecký (born 21 April 1940) is a Czech politician and lawyer. He's the former Chairman of the Legislative Council.

Early life

Zářecký is a graduate of the

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. He's married and has one

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. From 1966 to 1969, he was a member of the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Com ...

Chairman of the Legislative Council

He is very close to the

Czech Social Democratic Party Social Democracy (, SOCDEM), known as the Czech Social Democratic Party (, ČSSD) until 10 June 2023, is a social democratic political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum and holding pro-European ...

and served in the

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of then-

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Jiří Paroubek Jiří Paroubek (; born 21 August 1952) is a Czech politician, who was the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2005 to September 2006. He was also the leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2006 until his resignation follo ...

in the same position he had held since 30 November 2009.

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