Petr Nečas
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 June 2010
President	Václav Klaus Miloš Zeman
Preceded by	Jan Fischer
Minister of Defence
In office 21 December 2012 – 19 March 2013
Preceded by	Karolína Peake
Succeeded by	Vlastimil Picek
Leader of the Civic Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 April 2010
Preceded by	Mirek Topolánek
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
In office 4 September 2006 – 8 May 2009
Prime Minister	Mirek Topolánek
Preceded by	Zdeněk Škromach
Succeeded by	Petr Šimerka
Personal details
Born	(1964-11-19) 19 November 1964 (age 48) Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	Civic Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Radka Nečasová
Children	Ondřej Tomáš Tereza Marie
Alma mater	Masaryk University
Religion	Roman Catholicism[1]
Signature
Website	Official website

Petr Nečas (born 19 November 1964; Czech pronunciation: [ˈpɛtr̩ ˈnɛtʃas]) is the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Leader of the Civic Democratic Party. He was sworn into office on 28 June 2010.^[2]

Education [edit]

Nečas attended Gymnasium in Uherské Hradiště from 1979 to 1983. He graduated from the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno in 1988.

Career [edit]

Nečas was a member of Socialistic Union of Youth (SSM) which was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) until 1989. He served as a technologist^{[clarification needed]}, experimentalist^{[clarification needed]}, and developer at Tesla Rožnov from 1988 to 1992. He became a member of the Civic Democratic Party in 1991. He was named as deputy defence minister in 1995. One year later, he elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. From 4 September 2006 to 8 May 2009, Nečas was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

In 1991, Nečas became a member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). In March 2010, he replaced Mirek Topolánek as the leader of the party. The Civic Democratic Party won second place in the May 2010 Czech legislative election and shortly after that Nečas announced his intention to stand for the post of the chairman of the party.^[3][4]

See also [edit]

• Petr Nečas's Cabinet

References [edit]

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Petr Nečas

• Official website (Czech)

v t e Ministers of Defence of the Czech Republic Baudyš Holáň Výborný Lobkowicz Vetchý Tvrdík Kostelka Kühnl Šedivý Parkanová Barták Vondra Peake Nečas Picek

v t e Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic Vodička Volák Špidla Škromach Nečas Šimerka Drábek Müllerová

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v t e Current members of the Cabinet Nečas Bendl Blažek Chalupa Fiala Hanáková Heger Jankovský Kalousek Kuba Kubice Mlsna Müllerová Peake Picek Schwarzenberg Stanjura

v t e Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus Josef Tošovský Miloš Zeman Vladimír Špidla Stanislav Gross Jiří Paroubek Mirek Topolánek Jan Fischer Petr Nečas