Pavla Topolánková is a Czech politician. She was born in

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, Czech Republic on 7 May 1955. She was the wife of

Mirek Topolánek Mirek Topolánek (, born 15 May 1956) is a Czech Republic, Czech politician and business manager who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009 and the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic), Civic Democr ...

, former Czech Prime Minister. Pavla Topolánková is the mother of Petra (born 1979), Jana (born 1983) and Tomáš (born 1992), and the grandmother of Karolína (born 2006) and Štěpán (born 2008). She graduated from Brno University of Technology as a

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with a specialization in

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. She was a high school teacher and later served as the personal assistant of her husband while he was a senator in the Czech Senate. She strongly supported her husband in his 2003 bid for chairmanship of Civic Democratic Party and in Czech legislative election, 2006. She is also a co-founder of an NGO named Becario, which was aimed at promoting education. In Fall of 2006, she ran for

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for Jana Bobošíková's party " Politika 21" in the

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district, against the incumbent candidate of the Civic Democratic Party (and to a dismay of senior party officials, who suggested that she should rather support her husband in his effort to form a cabinet). She did not pass the first round and the Civic Democratic candidate lost the run-off. The marriage of Pavla Topolánková and then Czech Prime Minister

had been a popular topic for Czech media in the time after parliamentary elections in June 2006. After Pavla Topolánková announced her candidacy for Senate in one of the cities of Ostrava's election districts (against Mirek Topolánek's party colleague), it became obvious that the marriage was in crisis. In January 2007 Topolánek publicly announced that he lives with

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, his mistress and party colleague. Topoláneks'

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was finalised in February 2010. In January 2007,

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praised Pavla Topolánková for striving to maintain her family and for her willingness to forgive her husband.

References

External links

Personal website (Czech)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Topolankova, Pavla 1955 births Living people People from Bohumín People from Cieszyn Silesia 21st-century Czech women politicians Mirek Topolánek