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.

Previously, 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

Mirek Topolánek

Mirek Topolánek is a former prime minister of the Czech Republic and former President of the European Council. A member of the Civic Democratic Party, he was chairman of the center-right party between November 2002 and March 2010, succeeding Václav Klaus, who was elected President in 2003.On 24...

 as the leader of the party. The Civic Democratic Party won second place in the May 2010 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...

 and shortly after that Nečas announced his intention to stand for the post of the chairman of the party.

Education

• 1979–1983: Gymnasium
  Gymnasium (school)
  A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
  
   in Uherské Hradiště
• 1983–1988: Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
  Masaryk University
  Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...
  
   in Brno
  Brno
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Career

• 1988–1989: Military Service in the Czechoslovak People's Army
  Czechoslovak People's Army
  The Czechoslovak People's Army was the army of the Czechoslovak State from 1954 until 1990. On March 14, 1990 the Army's name was changed to the Czechoslovak Army removing adjective "People's" from the name. Since 1955 it was a member force of the Warsaw Pact.- Ground Forces :Ground troops were...
  
  
• 1988–1992: Technologist, experimentalist, and developer, Tesla Rožnov
• 1991: Became a member of the Civic Democratic Party
• 1992–present: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
  Parliament of the Czech Republic
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• 1995: Appointed as a Deputy Minister of Defence
• 1996: Elected as a member of 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....
  
  
• 2006–present: Appointed as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs; Appointed as a Deputy Prime Minister
• 2010–present: Leader of the Civic Democratic Party
• 2010–present: Prime Minister of the Czech Republic's Government

External links

• Official website

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