Miloš Zeman
| Miloš Zeman | |
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| 3rd President of the Czech Republic | |
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Assumed office 8 March 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Petr Nečas Jiří Rusnok Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Václav Klaus |
| 3rd Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
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In office 22 July 1998 – 15 July 2002 |
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| President | Václav Havel |
| Preceded by | Josef Tošovský |
| Succeeded by | Vladimír Špidla |
| Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 27 June 1996 – 17 July 1998 |
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| President | Václav Havel |
| Preceded by | Milan Uhde |
| Succeeded by | Václav Klaus |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 28 February 1993 – 7 April 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Jiří Horák |
| Succeeded by | Vladimír Špidla |
| Personal details | |
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28 September 1944 Kolín, Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) |
| Political party |
Communist Party (1968–1970) Civic Forum (1990–1991) Civic Movement (1991–1992) Social Democratic Party (1992–2009) Party of Civic Rights (2009–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Blanka Zemanová (Divorced) Ivana Bednarčíková (1993–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Economics, Prague |
| Signature |  |
| Website | Official website |
Miloš Zeman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈzɛman]; born 28 September 1944) is the third and current President of the Czech Republic, in office since 8 March 2013. Previously he served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed it into one of the country's major parties. He was Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 to 1998.
In January 2013, Zeman was elected as President of the Czech Republic. He is the first directly elected President in Czech history; both of his predecessors, Václav Havel and Václav Klaus, were elected by the Parliament.
Zeman was born in Kolín; his parents divorced when he was two years old and he was raised by his mother, who was a teacher. He studied at a high school in Kolín; from 1965 he studied at the University of Economics in Prague, graduating in 1969.
In 1968, during the Prague Spring, he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; however, he was expelled in 1970, owing to his differences with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was dismissed from his job and spent more than ten years as an employee of the sports organisation Sportpropag (1971–84). From 1984, he worked in the company Agrodat. However, he was dismissed again in 1989, this time as a result of his critical article "Prognostika a přestavba" ("Forecasts and Reconstruction").
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