Pavel Rychetský
Pavel Rychetský (born August 17, 1943 ) is a Czech lawyer and former politician . He is currently the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic .
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Pavel Rychetský was born into a Prague lawyer family. He studied law at the local Charles University . From 1966 to 1969 he was a member of the Communist Party ( KSČ ). After completing his studies, Rychetský was initially a trainee at the Prague City Court, but there were no further career opportunities due to protests against political trials. He then worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Law at Charles University, which he also had to leave in the wake of the crackdown on the Prague Spring . After a few months of unemployment, he worked as a legal advisor for a company until the Velvet Revolution .
Pavel Rychetský was one of the founders and first signatory of Charter 77 and he published in samizdat . In 1989 he took part in the founding of the citizens' forum . Later, after it broke up, he was involved in the successor organization of the citizens' movement until 1995 . On January 8th - after the Velvet Revolution - he was appointed Attorney General of the ČSFR .
In June 1990 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Legislative Council of the Czechoslovak government under Marián Čalfa . After leaving the government in 1992 , he initially worked as a lawyer and read political science at the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Economics in Prague . From 1996 to 2003 he was a senator for the social democratic ČSSD in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic , where he headed the Constitutional Committee until he joined the Czech government. From 1998 to 2002 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Legislative Council member of the Miloš Zeman government . In the government of Zeman's successor, Vladimír Špidla, Rychetský held the post of Czech Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister until he was appointed constitutional judge.
On August 6, 2003, President Václav Klaus appointed him judge and chairman of the constitutional court. In 2005 he received the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor . After his ten-year term of office, Rychetský was reappointed in 2013 by President Miloš Zeman .
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| SURNAME | Rychetský, Pavel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1943 |