Miroslav Kalousek

Miroslav Kalousek (born December 17, 1960 in Tábor ) is a Czech politician of the TOP 09 party and was its chairman from 2015-2017.

Life

Kalousek initially worked for the Christian democratic party KDU-ČSL for many years . After studying at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague , he first worked in the state administration and was Deputy Minister of Defense from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament for the first time, to which he is still a member. In 2003 he prevailed against Cyril Svoboda in the party chairmanship of the KDU-ČSL. However, he had to resign from this post in 2006 under pressure from his own ranks, because after the parliamentary elections in 2006 he had publicly considered the formation of a minority government of the ČSSD and his party tolerated by the communist KSČM . Before the elections, the KDU-ČSL, which sees itself as “anti-communist”, had ruled out any cooperation with the communists.

In the center-right government Topolánek II of the ODS formed in January 2007 with the KDU-ČSL and the Green Party ( SZ ), Kalousek took over the post of finance minister . After this government lost its majority in parliament in March 2009 and was overthrown by a vote of no confidence, Kalousek had to give up the ministerial office again.

Kalousek left the party in June 2009 after Cyril Svoboda was re-elected to head the KDU-ČSL and together with Karel Schwarzenberg founded the center-right party TOP 09 . For this he was again finance minister from July 2010 to July 2013 in the renewed center-right government under Prime Minister Petr Nečas . Since 2009 he has been the deputy chairman of TOP 09, at the 4th party congress of TOP 09 he was elected chairman on November 28, 2015.

After the early elections to the House of Representatives in the Czech Republic in 2013 , Kalousek was proposed by his party as one of the four vice-presidents of the House of Representatives, but did not achieve the necessary support in the chamber. Kalousek then took over the chairmanship of the TOP 09 parliamentary group from Petr Gazdík, and Gazdík was instead elected vice-president of the chamber.

After the party barely managed to get into parliament with 5.3% in the 2017 House of Representatives election, Kalousek withdrew from the party chairmanship of TOP 09. Jiří Pospíšil was elected as his successor on November 26, 2017 .

Others

In September 2011, Miroslav Kalousek slapped a young man on the street who had insulted him.

Web links

Commons : Miroslav Kalousek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ [1] Miroslav Kalousek new head of the Czech Christian Democrats
2. ↑ eib.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Miroslav Kalousek, the new governor for the Czech Republic  
3. ↑ Miroslav Kalousek se stal šéfem TOP 09 , online at: domaci.ihned.cz/
4. ↑ Czech minister slaps critics www.sueddeutsche.de
5. ↑ Finance Minister struck down young critics derstandard.at, accessed on September 22, 2011