Miroslav Kalousek
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Miroslav Kalousek MP |
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| Leader of TOP 09 | |
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Assumed office 29 November 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Karel Schwarzenberg |
| Finance Minister of the Czech Republic | |
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In office 13 July 2010 – 10 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Petr Nečas |
| Preceded by | Eduard Janota |
| Succeeded by | Jan Fischer |
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In office 9 January 2007 – 8 May 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Mirek Topolánek |
| Preceded by | Vlastimil Tlustý |
| Succeeded by | Eduard Janota |
| Leader of KDU-ČSL | |
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In office 8 November 2003 – 25 August 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Cyril Svoboda |
| Succeeded by | Jiří Čunek |
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Member of Parliament for Central Bohemian Region |
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Assumed office 20 June 1998 |
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17 December 1960 Tábor, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
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KDU-ČSL (1984-2009) TOP 09 (2009-present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | UCT Prague |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | www.miroslav-kalousek.cz |
Miroslav Kalousek (born 17 December 1960 in Tábor) is a Czech politician who has been Leader of TOP 09, a party he co-founded, since 2015 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Central Bohemian Region since 1998. He served twice as Finance Minister in the Cabinets of Mirek Topolánek and then again from 2010 to 2013 in the Government of Petr Nečas.
He studied chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague and then worked at the Ministry of Defense where he was responsible for the budget and acquisitions from 1993 to 1998. In 1998, Kalousek was elected as MP on the ticket of the Christian Democrats, the party he led from 2003 until his departure and quit in 2006. In 2007, Kalousek was appointed as a Finance Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, a position he held until 2007 when Topolánek's cabinet lost a vote of no-confidence.
In 2009, Kalousek and Karel Schwarzenberg co-founded a pro-European, center-right and conservative political party, TOP 09, that met with success in the 2010 legislative election and the party formed a coalition government with the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Public Affairs (VV), a step that secured the Ministry of Finance for Kalousek for the second time.
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