Jiří Pospíšil

Jiří Pospíšil MEP
Leader of TOP 09
In office 26 November 2017 – 24 November 2019
Preceded by	Miroslav Kalousek
Succeeded by	Markéta Pekarová Adamová
Minister of Justice
In office 13 July 2010 – 27 June 2012
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas
Preceded by	Daniela Kovářová
Succeeded by	Pavel Blažek
In office 4 September 2006 – 8 May 2009
Prime Minister	Mirek Topolánek
Preceded by	Pavel Němec
Succeeded by	Daniela Kovářová
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 15 June 2002 – 20 June 2014
Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Chairman of the Government Legislative Council
In office 13 July 2010 – 13 July 2011
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas
Preceded by	Pavel Zářecký
Succeeded by	Karolína Peake
In office 4 September 2006 – 9 January 2007
Prime Minister	Mirek Topolánek
Preceded by	Pavel Zářecký
Succeeded by	Cyril Svoboda
Personal details
Born	(1975-11-24) 24 November 1975 (age 48) Chomutov, Czechoslovakia
Political party	Civic Democratic Alliance (1994–1998) Civic Democratic Party (1998–2014) Independent as TOP 09 (2014–2017) TOP 09 (2017–)
Profession	Lawyer

Jiří Pospíšil (born 24 November 1975) is a Czech politician, who was leader of TOP 09 from November 2017 until November 2019. As a deputy for the Civic Democratic Party, Pospíšil served twice as Czech Minister of Justice: between 2006 and 2009 under Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, and then again from 2010 to 2012 in the government of Petr Nečas. Pospíšil was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2002 to 2014.

Career

Born in Chomutov, Pospíšil graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of West Bohemia in 1999. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Dean of the same faculty. From 2010 until June 2012 he was Justice Minister again, in the Government of Petr Nečas.

Pospíšil, a former member of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), ran in the 2014 European Parliament election for TOP 09. He received the most preferential votes of all candidates in the election.^[1]

On 26 November 2017, he was elected leader of TOP 09, replacing co-founder Miroslav Kalousek.^[2] He stepped down as leader on 24 November 2019.

References

External links

• Official biography

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