Lubomír Zaorálek
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Lubomír Zaorálek MP |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 29 January 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Jan Kohout |
| Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 11 July 2002 – 14 August 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Václav Klaus |
| Succeeded by | Miloslav Vlček |
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Member of Parliament for Moravian-Silesian Region |
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Assumed office 1 June 1996 |
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6 September 1956 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Political party |
National Social Party (Before 1989) Civic Forum (1990–1991) Civic Movement (1991–1994) Social Democratic Party (1994–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
National Front (1986–1989) |
| Alma mater | Masaryk University |
Lubomír Zaorálek (born 6 September 1956) is a Czech politician, who serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Moravian-Silesian Region since 1996. On 14 June 2017, Zaorálek became the Czech Social Democratic Party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2017 legislative election.
He was born on 6 September 1956 in Ostrava, and graduated from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (today Masaryk University) in Brno in 1982. He worked as a dramaturge at Czechoslovak Television in Ostrava.
During the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 he participated in Civic Forum.
Zaorálek was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 as a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD), becoming the party's vice chairman in 2009. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
He has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 29 January 2014 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. He is the 10th Minister of Foreign Affairs since the creation of the post in 1993.
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