Přemysl Sobotka
Přemysl Sobotka (born May 18, 1944 in Mladá Boleslav ) is a Czech politician and doctor. He was President of the Senate of the Czech Republic .
After studying general medicine at the Charles University in Prague , Sobotka began his professional career in the surgical department of the hospital in Liberec in northern Bohemia , from where he then moved to the X-ray department after two years. There he spent the rest of his professional life. During the Velvet Revolution from the end of 1989 he began to get involved in Liberec for the citizens 'forum , from which the national-conservative and economically liberal party ODS ( Democratic Citizens' Party ) emerged, to which he belongs. From 1990 to 1996 he was on the City Council of Liberec.
In 1996, Sobotka was first elected to the second chamber of the Czech Parliament, the Senate, of which he was a member until 2016. From 2004 to 2008 he was President of the Senate, before and after that he was Vice President several times. In September 2011 he announced that he would run for the office of Czech President as successor to his party colleague Václav Klaus . In an internal selection process, he prevailed with 61% to 39% of the ODS members taking part in the election against the MEP Evžen Tošenovský as the candidate of the largest Czech ruling party. In the presidential elections in January 2013, however, Sobotka received the second worst result of all candidates with just 2.46% of the vote and was therefore eliminated after the first round.
Sobotka is married for the second time. From his first marriage he has two daughters (Věra and Martina). In his second marriage, he is married to the former nurse Radmila, who brought a stepson Prokop into the marriage. Volleyball and mountaineering are named as his leisure interests.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Přemysl Sobotka in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- www.premyslsobotka.cz Homepage of the politician in Czech and English
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| SURNAME | Sobotka, Přemysl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech politician and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mladá Boleslav |