Zdeněk Hřib

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Zdeněk Hřib (2019)

Zdeněk Hřib (born May 21, 1981 in Slavičín ) is a Czech politician of the Česká pirátská strana (Pirate Party) and has been the ruling Lord Mayor of Prague since November 2018 .

Life and political career

Hřib studied medicine at Charles University in Prague from 1999 to 2006, including studying abroad in Taiwan . He worked in various public and private institutions in the health sector. In 2013, Hřib became a registered supporter of the Pirate Party and in 2014 participated in the municipal elections in Prague without success. In 2017 he joined the Pirate Party, where he was responsible for health policy. He was elected to the Board of General Health Insurance by the Czech Chamber of Deputies in January 2018.

In the elections for the Prague City Council in October 2018, Hřib ran as the top candidate. The party achieved 17% of the vote and entered coalition negotiations with TOP 09 - STAN and Praha sobě . The new coalition elected him November 15, 2018 with a majority in the city council (39 out of 65 votes) as the new head of the city. Prague is thus the first European capital in which a pirate party provides the mayor.

In 2019, Hřib named a street in Riegrovy Sady Park after the liberal Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz, who was murdered shortly before . In the same year he joined the Pact of Free Cities , an initiative of the mayors of the four capitals of the Visegrád group (Prague, Warsaw , Bratislava and Budapest ), who are committed to “defending the common values ​​of freedom, human dignity, democracy, equality, the rule of law , Justice, Tolerance and Diversity ”.

Hřib is an open critic of the Russian and Chinese regimes. 2018 he protested against the requests of China, Taiwan expel representatives and criticized the sister city agreements with Beijing in which a full adherence to the One-China policy is demanded. In February 2020 he had the square in front of the Russian embassy renamed Boris-Nemtsov- Platz and removed a statue of the Soviet marshal Ivan Stepanowitsch Konev the following month . Robert Tait of The Guardian commented that in this way Hřib restored the image of the Czech Republic as a defender of human rights.

In April 2020, he announced that he was under police protection because Czech security authorities had received information about a planned attack by the Russian secret service . The magazine Respekt had previously reported that Russia was planning an attack on Hřib and another liberal Czech politician, Ondřej Kolář, using the toxic substance ricin , which had been attempted by a person with a diplomatic ID card . In June it was reported that Russian diplomats had probably only fabricated the attack plans to harm unpleasant colleagues.

Web links

Commons : Zdeněk Hřib  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Pražským primátorem bude pirate Hřib. Čižinský ani Pospíšil v radě nebudou . Lidové noviny . October 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Volby do zastupitelstev obcí 2014 . volby.cz.
  4. ↑ Interview with Zdeněk Hřib Lidovky on May 15, 2018
  5. ↑ Zdeněk Hřib to be New Mayor of Prague. Radio Praha, October 26, 2018
  6. ↑ Primátorem Prahy je Pirát Zdeněk Hřib, opozice ho nepodpořila ČTK on November 15, 2018
  7. ↑ Prague is the first European capital to have a pirate mayor Der Standard on November 12, 2018
  8. ↑ Praga: Burmistrz Zdeněk Hřib chce stworzyć ulicę im. Pawła Adamowicza ( pl ) January 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ Prague officially inaugurates street in honor of slain Polish mayor . 
  10. ↑ Shaun Walker. Islands in the illiberal storm: central European cities vow to stand together . theguardian.com . 16 Dec 2019.
  11. ^ Prague mayor condemns treatment of diplomat . In: Taipei Times , March 30, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019. 
  12. ↑ a b Zdeněk Hřib: the Czech mayor who defied China . In: The Guardian , July 3, 2019. 
  13. ↑ Ivana Kottasová CNN: Prague renames square in front of Russian embassy after slain Putin critic Boris Nemtsov. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ AFP: Prague mayor under protection after reports of Russian plot ( en-US )
  15. ↑ Andrew Roth: Prague mayor under police protection amid reports of Russian plot . In: The Guardian . April 27, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 18, 2020]).
  16. ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Russian threats against the mayor of Prague: The "Pirátor" under police protection | DW | April 28, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/prague-mayor-under-police-protection-amid-reports-russian-plot-zdenek-hrib
  18. ↑ Police protecting Prague mayor after 'murder plot' . In: BBC News . April 29, 2020 ( bbc.com [accessed June 18, 2020]).
  19. ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-rivalry-behind-prague-ricin-assassination-hoax/amp/ ?
predecessor Office successor
Adriana Krnáčová Lord Mayor of Prague
2018– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Hřib, Zdeněk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hrib, Zdenek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician (Česká pirátská strana), Lord Mayor of Prague
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Slavičín