Vlasta Parkanová, née Trnovcová (born 21 November 1951) is a Czech politician who served from January 2007 to May 2009 as the

minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

and shortly as

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between 1997 and 1998. She was member of the

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(MP) from 1997 to 2013. Parkanová is a graduate of the law faculty of

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, from 1975. She worked as a corporate lawyer from 1970 to 1990, mostly in agricultural organisations.

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