Bohuslav Sobotka
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Bohuslav Sobotka MP |
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| 11th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
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Assumed office 17 January 2014 |
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| President | Miloš Zeman |
| Deputy |
Andrej Babiš Pavel Bělobrádek |
| Preceded by | Jiří Rusnok |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office 29 May 2010 Acting: 29 May 2010 – 21 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Jiří Paroubek |
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In office 26 April 2005 – 13 May 2006 Acting |
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| Preceded by | Stanislav Gross |
| Succeeded by | Jiří Paroubek |
| 12th Minister of Industry and Trade Acting |
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Assumed office 1 March 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Bohuslav Sobotka |
| Preceded by | Jan Mládek |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 12 July 2002 – 4 September 2006 |
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| Prime Minister |
Vladimír Špidla Stanislav Gross Jiří Paroubek |
| Preceded by | Jiří Rusnok |
| Succeeded by | Vlastimil Tlustý |
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Member of Parliament for South Moravian Region |
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Assumed office 1 June 1996 |
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23 October 1971 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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