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Bohuslav Sobotka

Bohuslav Sobotka
MP
B Sobotka 2015 Praha.JPG
11th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Assumed office
17 January 2014
President Miloš Zeman
Deputy Andrej Babiš
Pavel Bělobrádek
Preceded by Jiří Rusnok
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Assumed office
29 May 2010
Acting: 29 May 2010 – 21 March 2011
Preceded by Jiří Paroubek
In office
26 April 2005 – 13 May 2006
Acting
Preceded by Stanislav Gross
Succeeded by Jiří Paroubek
12th Minister of Industry and Trade
Acting
Assumed office
1 March 2017
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
Preceded by Jan Mládek
Minister of Finance
In office
12 July 2002 – 4 September 2006
Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla
Stanislav Gross
Jiří Paroubek
Preceded by Jiří Rusnok
Succeeded by Vlastimil Tlustý
Member of Parliament
for South Moravian Region
Assumed office
1 June 1996
Personal details
Born (1971-10-23) 23 October 1971 (age 45)
Telnice, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political party Social Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Olga Sobotková
Children 2
Alma mater Masaryk University
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Website Official website

Bohuslav Sobotka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈboɦuslaf ˈsobotka]; born 23 October 1971) is the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Moravian Region since 1996. He also served as Finance Minister from 2002 to 2006. Since 1 March 2017 he has been acting Minister of Industry and Trade.

Born in Telnice but soon moved with family to Slavkov u Brna. He studied law at the Masaryk University in Brno and earned magister degree in 1995. After the fall of communism he helped rebuild Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and became a member. Sobotka also co-founded Young Social Democrats, youth wing of the ČSSD. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1996 legislative election.

After the formation of the Cabinet of Vladimír Špidla in 2002, Sobotka was appointed Finance Minister and then in 2003, he was promoted to the position of the Deputy Prime Minister, reappointed as Finance Minister in both cabinets of social democratic Prime Ministers Stanislav Gross and Jiří Paroubek. In 2005, he was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister in Paroubek's government. After the 2006 legislative election Sobotka became opposition MP and in 2011, he was elected as the Leader of the Social Democrats, and thus stood as the Leader of the Opposition to the Cabinet of Petr Nečas.


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