Vojtěch Filip

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Vojtěch Filip (born January 13, 1955 in Jedovary near Budweis ) is a Czech politician. He is chairman of the Czech Communist Party KSČM and a vice-president of the Czech Chamber of Deputies .

Life

Filip studied law in Brno , where he also received his doctorate in 1982. After completing his master's degree in 1978, he worked as a company lawyer until 1990 and has been running a law firm since 1993.

Filip was initially active in the communist youth movement and joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1983 . He was initially involved in Budweis at the local political level. Filip was paid by the State Security of Czechoslovakia to obtain information, using the code name "Falmer". However, following a court ruling in 1992, Filip went unpunished. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Filip was elected to the Czechoslovak Federation Assembly at the first free elections for the KSČ and KSČM in 1990, to which he belonged until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993. He has been a member of the Czech House of Representatives for KSČM since 1996 and was parliamentary group leader of his party until 2002. 2002–2010 and again since 2013 he has been the deputy president of the Czech House of Representatives and in 2005 took over the post of chairman of the KSČM from long-time party leader Miroslav Grebeníček . In 2007 Filip received the “Human Rights Prize” from the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vojtěch Filip and the StB report from Česká televize July 24, 2006
  2. ↑ GBM: About us
personal data
SURNAME Filip, Vojtěch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Jedovary at České Budějovice