Tomio Okamura

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Tomio Okamura

Tomio Okamura ( Japanese 岡村 富 夫 , Okamura Tomio ; born July 4, 1972 in Tokyo ) is a Czech businessman and politician of Japanese descent. From 2013 to 2015 he was party chairman of the Úsvit přímé demokracie party, which he founded , and after leaving in 2015 he founded the Svoboda a přímá demokracie (SPD) party.

biography

The son of a Czech woman and a Japanese man grew up partly in the Czech Republic and partly in Japan, where he worked for garbage disposal and as a popcorn seller. From 1994 he devoted himself to entrepreneurial activities, mainly in the travel industry, in recent years also in gastronomy and as a book author. Okamura has been honorary vice-president of the Association of Czech Tour Operators for several years.

In 2012 Okamura got into politics. As an independent candidate, he reached in the constituency Zlín in the Senate elections the most votes in the first ballot with 30.27%. In the runoff election he clearly beat the candidate of the Social Democrats , the incumbent district captain of the region Stanislav Mišák , with 66.23% . In the Senate he worked in the parliamentary group of KDU-ČSL until he left the Senate in 2013 .

Okamura decided to run for the 2013 presidential election after the successful Senate election . According to his own information, he submitted 61,500 supporter signatures for his candidacy, more than the 50,000 required by law. The Czech Interior Ministry only recognized 31,750 signatures as valid and therefore did not allow Okamura to vote. A complaint against this at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic was unsuccessful.

In May 2013 Okamura founded his own party called Úsvit přímé demokracie (Dawn of Direct Democracy), which ran for the first time in the early parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2013 . Many members of the Věci veřejné (Public Cause) party represented in parliament ran for candidates on the list , including chairman Vít Bárta .

In August 2014, Okamura went public with a statement about the Lety concentration camp that denied the Porajmos and denied the research findings. The Czech Minister of Human Rights Jiří Dienstbier called on Okamura to resign from all public offices. At the beginning of 2015 he called for a “boycott of Muslims”.

In mid-2015 there were internal disputes within the Úsvit přímé demokracie about the course of the party and about cooperation with other European right-wing populist parties. After numerous MPs left, the remaining Úsvit adopted the addition Úsvit - Narodní Koalice (German: "Dawn - National Coalition") .

In the course of this dispute, Okamura resigned from the Úsvit přímé demokracie party on May 4 and, together with some members who had also resigned, founded a new party called the SPD - Svoboda a přímá demokracie (German: "Freedom - direct democracy") .

In the parliamentary elections on October 21, 2017 , the party "Freedom - Direct Democracy" was the fourth strongest party in the Czech Parliament with 10.6 percent of the vote. More than half a million Czechs voted for Okamura and his party. Okamura strives to ban Islam in the Czech Republic.

In the subsequent elections to the Presidium of the Lower House of the Czech Parliament , the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Czech Republic , he received 102 votes out of 195 members present and has since been one of the Vice-Presidents of the House of Representatives.

On December 16, 2017, Okamura hosted a congress of the EU Group on Europe of Nations and Freedom in Prague .

Private

Tomio Okamura is the middle of three brothers. He is divorced from the Japanese Mie Okamura (now Krejčíková), with whom he has a son (born 1995).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zdeněk Ryšavý: Czech MP Okamura insults Romani victims of the Holocaust, media and politicians sharply criticize him. In: Romea.cz, 4th August 2014
  2. ↑ ČTK (Czech Press Agency): Czech Human Rights Minister: Okamura must resign. In: Romea.cz, 4th August 2014
  3. ↑ Politician calls for a boycott of Muslims on Der Spiegel online, January 5, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/tomio-okamura-vom-stotterer-zum-star-der-prager-rechte-1.3718926
  5. ↑ a b EU "catastrophic organization" euronews.net, from December 16, 2017
  6. ↑ http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/pro-okamurovu-spd-bude-uspechem-vysledek-nad-10-procent/1508510
  7. ↑ https://www.volby.cz/pls/ps2017/ps111?xjazyk=CZ&xkraj=2&xstrana=29&xv=1&xt=2
  8. ↑ Jsem opak otce. Zviditelňuji se nerad, říká syn Tomia Okamury idnes.cz, July 24, 2017. Accessed December 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Okamura, Tomio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡村 富 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo