List of prime ministers of the Czech Republic
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This is a list of prime ministers of the Czech Republic, a political office that was created in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
The Czech Republic is a parliamentary representative democracy, with the Prime Minister acting as head of government and the President acting as head of state.
The first Prime Minister of the Czech Republic was Václav Klaus, who served as the second President from 7 March 2003 until 7 March 2013. The current and 13th Prime Minister is Petr Fiala, leader of the ODS, who was appointed by the President on November 28, 2021.
Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1990–1992)
[edit]6 March 1990 – 31 December 1992: called "Czech Republic" within Czechoslovakia.
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic (Federal part)
- Parties
OF
OH (Social-liberal)
ODS (Liberal-conservative)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | |||||||
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Petr Pithart (born 1941) |
6 February 1990 | 29 June 1990 | 877 | Civic Forum (OF) |
I | KSČ – ČSL – OF – ČSS | 1986 |
| 29 June 1990 | 2 July 1992 | II | OF – HSD-SMS – KDU OF later replaced by OH and ODS |
1990 | |||||
| 6 | Civic Movement (OH) | ||||||||
| 7 | 
|
Václav Klaus (born 1941) |
2 July 1992 | 31 December 1992 | 182 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) |
I | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA – KDS | 1992 |
Czech Republic (1993–present)
[edit]From 1 January 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
- Parties
ODS (Liberal-conservative)
ČSSD (Social democratic)
ANO (Populist)
Independent
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Designated | Took office | Left office | Days | |||||||
| 1 |
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Václav Klaus (born 1941) |
1 January 1993 | 1 January 1993 | 4 July 1996 | 1,827 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) |
I | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA – KDS | 1992 |
| 4 July 1996 | 4 July 1996 | 2 January 1998 | II | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA | 1996 | |||||
| 2 | 
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Josef Tošovský (born 1950) |
17 December 1997 | 2 January 1998 | 22 July 1998 | 217 | Independent | • | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA ODS later replaced by US | |
| 3 | 
|
Miloš Zeman (born 1944) |
17 July 1998 | 22 July 1998 | 15 July 2002 | 1,459 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) |
• | ČSSD | 1998 |
| 4 | 
|
Vladimír Špidla (born 1951) |
12 July 2002 | 15 July 2002 | 4 August 2004 | 754 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) |
• | ČSSD – KDU-ČSL – US–DEU | 2002 |
| 5 | 
|
Stanislav Gross (1969–2015) |
26 July 2004 | 4 August 2004 | 25 April 2005 | 273 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) |
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| 6 | 
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Jiří Paroubek (born 1952) |
25 April 2005 | 25 April 2005 | 4 September 2006 | 497 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) |
• | ||
| 7 | 
|
Mirek Topolánek (born 1956) |
16 August 2006 | 4 September 2006 | 9 January 2007 | 996 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) |
I | ODS | 2006 |
| 8 November 2006 | 9 January 2007 | 8 May 2009 | II | ODS – KDU-ČSL – SZ | ||||||
| 8 | 
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Jan Fischer (born 1951) |
9 April 2009 | 8 May 2009 | 13 July 2010 | 460 | Independent | • | No party | |
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Petr Nečas (born 1964) |
28 June 2010 | 13 July 2010 | 10 July 2013 | 1,108 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) |
• | ODS – TOP 09 – VV VV later replaced by LIDEM |
2010 |
| 10 | 
|
Jiří Rusnok (born 1960) |
25 June 2013 | 10 July 2013 | 29 January 2014 | 218 | Independent | • | ČSSD[1] – KDU-ČSL ČSSD exited cabinet[2] | |
| 11 | 
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Bohuslav Sobotka (born 1971) |
17 January 2014 | 29 January 2014 | 13 December 2017 | 1,426 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) |
• | ČSSD – ANO 2011 – KDU-ČSL | 2013 |
| 12 | 
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Andrej Babiš (born 1954) |
6 December 2017 | 13 December 2017 | 27 June 2018 | 1,472 | ANO 2011 | I | ANO 2011 | 2017 |
| 6 June 2018 | 27 June 2018 | 17 December 2021 | II | ANO 2011 – ČSSD | ||||||
| 13 | 
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Petr Fiala (born 1964) |
28 November 2021 | 17 December 2021 | Incumbent | 1,069 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) |
• | SPOLU (ODS – KDU-ČSL – TOP 09) – PirStan (STAN – Piráti) | 2021 |
Timeline
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See also
[edit]- List of rulers of Bohemia
- List of presidents of Czechoslovakia
- List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia
- List of prime ministers of the Czech Socialist Republic
- List of rulers of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
- List of presidents of the Czech Republic
- Lists of incumbents
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "MGR. Marie Benešová". Government of the Czech Republic (in Czech). Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ Ovčáček, Jiří (23 August 2013). "Benešová musela vystoupit z ČSSD, aby za ni mohla kandidovat". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis.
| Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia (1939–1945) |  | |
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| Czech Socialist Republic (1969–1990) | ||
| Czech Federative Republic (1990–1992) | ||
| Czech Republic (1993–present) | ||
