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Cabinet of the Czech Republic is the supreme executive

Executive (government)

Executive branch of Government is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers.In many countries, the term...

body in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. Its position is defined in the Constitution of the Czech Republic

Constitution of the Czech Republic

The current Constitution of the Czech Republic was adopted on December 16, 1992. It replaced the constitution of Czechoslovakia , which split into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic by act of parliament on January 1, 1993, through the so-called Velvet Divorce.The document is organized into...

Composition

The Cabinet is constituted by a Prime Minister and 14 Ministers with a portfolio. Two Ministers function also as Deputy Prime Ministers.

The 14 portfolios are: Agriculture; Culture; Defence; Education, Environment; Finances; Foreign Affairs; Health; Industry and Trade; Interior; Justice; Labour and Social Affairs; Regional Development; Transport. Between years 2003 and 2007 also Ministry of Informatics existed.

Current Government

The current government was elected in the last Czech legislative election

Czech legislative election, 2010

A legislative election in the Czech Republic took place on 28–29 May 2010. The election had been expected to take place some time before the end of 2009 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic...

in 2010, sworn in on 13 July 2010 and was approved by the majority in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic

The Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of the Czech Republic. The seat of the Chamber of Deputies is situated in palaces in Malá Strana, Prague....

on 10 August 2010.The Cabinet, assembled by Prime Minister Petr Nečas

Petr Necas

Petr Nečas is the current Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Leader of the Civic Democratic Party. He was sworn into office on 28 June 2010....

, is currently composed of members of Civic Democratic Party (Občanská demokratická strana, ODS), TOP 09 and Public Affairs (Věci veřejné, VV)

Public Affairs (political party)

Public Affairs , abbreviated to VV, is a conservative liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, its main platform is transparency and opposing political corruption. It has 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Besides...

Composition

Portfolio	Minister	Nominated by
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas	ODS
First Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs (Czech Republic) The Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and handles foreign policy of the Czech Republic.- Ministers of Foreign Affairs :...	Karel Schwarzenberg Karel Schwarzenberg Karel Schwarzenberg or Karel, Prince of Schwarzenberg , 7...	TOP 09
Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Interior	Radek John Radek John Radek John is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician, current chairman of the political party Public Affairs . His novel Memento is the first book examining the drug problem in the context of the former communist Czechoslovakia...	VV Public Affairs (political party) Public Affairs , abbreviated to VV, is a conservative liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, its main platform is transparency and opposing political corruption. It has 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Besides...
Minister of Finance	Miroslav Kalousek Miroslav Kalousek Miroslav Kalousek is a Czech politician, who currently serves as the Finance Minister. He is also the First Deputy Chairman of the Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09, the party he founded....	TOP 09
Minister of Defence	Alexandr Vondra Alexandr Vondra Alexandr "Saša" Vondra is a Czech politician, who currently serves as the Senator from Litoměřice and the nation's Minister of Defence. He is also a Deputy Chairman of the Civic Democratic Party...	ODS
Minister of Industry and Trade	Martin Kocourek	ODS
Minister of Justice	Jiří Pospíšil Jirí Pospíšil Jiří Pospíšil is a Czech politician, who serves as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Justice Minister, he already occupied the seat from 2006 to 2009. He is the youngest person to hold this position in the country's history.In 1999, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of...	ODS
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs	Jaromír Drábek Jaromír Drábek Jaromír Drábek is a Czech politician, who currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09....	TOP 09
Minister of Transport	Vít Bárta Vít Bárta Vít Bárta is the former Czech Minister of Transport, member and leader of the political party Public Affairs .- Political career :...	VV Public Affairs (political party) Public Affairs , abbreviated to VV, is a conservative liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, its main platform is transparency and opposing political corruption. It has 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Besides...
Minister of Agriculture	Ivan Fuksa Ivan Fuksa Ivan Fuksa is a Czech local politician. Fuksa was a mayor of Příbram between 2002 and 2006 and is first deputy of the Minister of Finance. From July 2010 to October 2011 he served as a Minister of Agriculture....	ODS
Minister of Health	Leoš Heger	TOP 09
Minister of Education, Youth and Sports	Josef Dobeš	VV Public Affairs (political party) Public Affairs , abbreviated to VV, is a conservative liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, its main platform is transparency and opposing political corruption. It has 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Besides...
Minister of Environment	Pavel Drobil	ODS
Minister of Culture	Jiří Besser	TOP 09
Minister for Regional Development	Kamil Jankovský	VV Public Affairs (political party) Public Affairs , abbreviated to VV, is a conservative liberal political party in the Czech Republic. Led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John, its main platform is transparency and opposing political corruption. It has 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.Besides...

Councils

National Security Council
Government Legislative Council
Inter-ministerial Commission for Roma Community Affairs
Government Council for Human Rights
Government Council for National Minorities
Research and Development Council
Government Council for Drug Policy Coordination
Government Dislocation Commission
Government Board for People with Disabilities
Government Commissioner for Human Rights
The Government Council for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men
Committee for EU
Independent Panel on the Assessment of the Czech Republic's Long-Term Energy Requirements

Bodies not provided for by the Government Office

Government Council for Sustainable Development
The Czech Government Council for Health Care and Environment
The Government Council for Safety, Hygiene and Health at Work
Government Council for Seniors and Population Ageing
Czech Republic Government Council for Road Safety
National Co-ordination Group for Digital Broadcasting in the CR
The Czech Commission for UNESCO
The Central Flood Commission
The Czech Republics' Council for Quality (in Czech only)
Government Council for the Revitalization of Areas Affected by Flooding
Commission on the Management of Occurrences of Infectious Diseases in the Czech Republic
Government Council for the Information Society
Commission for the Reconciliation of Relations between the State and Churches and Religious Societies
Czech Republic Government Council - Investment Council

External links

The Government of the Czech Republic (Czech) (English)

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