Lubomír Zaorálek
Lubomír Zaorálek MP | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
| Assumed office 28 August 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Andrej Babiš |
| Preceded by | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 29 January 2014 – 13 December 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Jan Kohout |
| Succeeded by | Martin Stropnický |
| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 July 2002 – 14 August 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Václav Klaus |
| Succeeded by | Miloslav Vlček |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 1 June 1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 September 1956 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Political party | Socialist Party (1986–1989) 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 has been Minister of Culture since August 2019. Zaorálek previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017. He has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 1996 and unsuccessfully ran for the premiership in the 2017 election but his Social Democratic Party received only 7% of the vote.
Early life[]
He was born on 6 September 1956 in Ostrava,[1] and graduated from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (today Masaryk University) in Brno in 1982.[2] He worked as a dramaturge at Czechoslovak Television in Ostrava.[3]
Political career[]
During the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 he participated in Civic Forum.[4]
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 served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.[5]
External links[]
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- (in Czech) Official Chamber of Deputies website
- (in English) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic official profile
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2014-07-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "CV of Lubomir Zaoralek" (in Czech). Pronet Media Ostrava. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "Filmova databaze FDB" (in Czech). Filmová databáze s.r.o. (FDb.cz). Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "CSSD" (in Czech). Czech Social Democratic Party. January 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "Lubomír Zaorálek". Government of the Czech Republic. January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
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