Petr Nečas

Petr Nečas, 2013

Petr Nečas (born November 19, 1964 in Uherské Hradiště ) is a Czech politician of the conservative party ODS , who was Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from June 28, 2010 until his resignation on June 17, 2013 .

life and career

After studying physics at Masaryk University in Brno and doing military service, Nečas was elected to the Czech House of Representatives for the first time in 1992. In 1995/96 he held the post of 1st Deputy Minister of Defense. In 1999 he became deputy chairman of the ODS. In the competition for the successor of the founder and long-time party chairman Václav Klaus, who resigned in 2002, Nečas was defeated by the later Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek by a few votes in the decisive ballot, although Klaus had also spoken out in favor of his election.

From 2006 until the fall of the government in March 2009, Nečas was Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the Topolánek I and II cabinets . At the end of March 2010, Nečas was entrusted by the ODS party leadership with the top candidacy for the House of Representatives elections in May after Topolánek had to resign from the top candidacy due to controversial statements against homosexuals, Jews and the Church. On April 1, 2010, Topolánek also handed over his powers as ODS Chairman to Nečas. On June 20, 2010 he was officially elected chairman of the ODS with 87% of the delegate votes.

It is true that the ODS achieved a historically poor result in the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2010 with Nečas as the top candidate and, as the strongest party, had to admit defeat to the Social Democrats. Nevertheless, the three center-right parties Občanská Demokratieická strana , TOP 09 and Věci veřejné achieved a clear parliamentary majority. Because of the good prospects of finding a viable majority, President Klaus officially appointed Nečas Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on June 28, 2010 and officially commissioned him to form a government. On June 30, Nečas submitted his cabinet list of 15 men. The cabinet was sworn in on July 13, 2010 by President Klaus. With all 118 votes in the coalition (out of 200 parliamentarians), the government received the confidence of the Czech House of Representatives on August 10, 2010.

On April 22, 2012 Nečas announced that the tripartite coalition of ODS, the conservative TOP 09 and Věci veřejné (VV) would end their alliance on April 27, 2012. Previously, the smallest coalition partner, the Věci veřejné, split into two factions, whereupon the government lost its previous majority in parliament. One day later, Nečas announced that he would put the vote of confidence in parliament on April 27th in order to enter into a new center-right alliance with the former VV members around Vice-Prime Minister Karolína Peake and TOP 09. The government survived this vote of confidence with 105 to 93 votes.

Nečas is married and has four children. The family lives in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm in the east of the Czech Republic. Nečas had announced that as Prime Minister he would be content with a Škoda as a company car and not want to move into the official service villa. As a “simple citizen” he wanted to largely forego personal protection.

During a state visit to Germany, Nečas was the first top Czech politician to publicly regret the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans after the Second World War , in a speech to the Bavarian state parliament on February 20, 2013 .

"We regret that the expulsion and forcible evacuation of the Sudeten Germans from former Czechoslovakia after the end of the war, the expropriation and expatriation, caused a lot of suffering and injustice to countless people."

- Petr Nečas

This renewed gesture of reconciliation (after the German-Czech declaration of 1997) was described as an important step and received great applause.

On January 17, 2013, Nečas and his wife Radka Nečasová officially announced their separation. The prime minister's separation from his wife is also linked to another major government crisis. On June 13, 2013, the office manager of the prime minister, Jana Nagyová, was arrested: the public prosecutor accused her of having spied on the prime minister's wife by the military secret service and thus abused her authority. At the same time, she is said to have been involved in bribing several MPs from her own party: These ODS MPs, known as "rebels", including former Agriculture Minister Ivan Fuksa and former ODS parliamentary group leader Petr Tluchoř , took the course in autumn 2012 no longer want to support the government and resolved the conflict by giving up their parliamentary mandates. Shortly thereafter, they received lucrative supervisory board positions in state companies. Nagyová is said to have organized corresponding agreements. Czech media speculate that a love affair between the office manager and the prime minister could be the cause of her actions. On June 17, 2013, Nečas took over political responsibility and resigned from his posts as Prime Minister and Chairman of the ODS . He announced that he wanted to withdraw from politics entirely. In July 2013, the public prosecutor's office requested that Nečas' immunity from MPs be lifted because of the alleged bribery.

Web links

Commons : Petr Nečas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry by Petr Nečas on the website of the Czech Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radio Prague : Topolánek resigns as party leader of the Citizens' Democrats (ODS) ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - News of April 1, 2010 (Retrieved May 24, 2011). 
2. ↑ Press release Idnes.cz June 28, 2010
3. ↑ Press release Idnes.cz, June 30, 2010
4. ↑ Press release Idnes.cz, July 13, 2010
5. ↑ Radio Prague : vote of confidence: Prime Minister Nečas explains government program ( memento of the original of November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - News of August 10, 2010. (Retrieved May 24, 2011). 
6. ↑ Czech Republic: Government coalition in Prague falls apart , Spiegel Online , April 23, 2012 (accessed April 23, 2012).
7. ↑ Czech Prime Minister: Necas wants to ask a vote of confidence at Spiegel Online , April 23, 2012 (accessed on April 23, 2012).
8. ↑ Czech head of government wins vote of confidence , NZZ Online from April 27, 2012
9. ↑ petr-necas.cz ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ Radio Prague : Prime Minister Nečas wants to live as a simple citizen , broadcast on July 29, 2010 (accessed on May 24, 2011).
11. ↑ Visiting Bavaria: Nečas regrets the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, Die Welt, Regionales, February 21, 2013
12. ^ [1] Report on www.denik.cz (Czech) from January 17, 2013, accessed on April 6, 2013
13. ↑ Petr Necas before the case Report in the Badische Zeitung from June 14, 2013, accessed on June 15, 2013.
14. ↑ Prime Minister Necas has resigned rp-online.de, June 17, 2013
15. ↑ Public prosecutor requests the immunity of ex-Prime Minister Neča's report from Radio Prague, accessed on July 10, 2013.