Edvard Kožušník Explained

Edvard Kožušník
Office:Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic
Term Start:14 July 2009
Term End:30 June 2014
Office2:Chief of Staff to the President of the Senate
President2:Přemysl Sobotka
Term Start2:2005
Term End2:2009
Birth Date:30 January 1971
Birth Place:Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
Nationality:Czech
Party:Civic Democratic Party

Edvard Kožušník (born 30 January 1971) is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014 and is the former chief of staff to the president of the Czech Senate, Přemysl Sobotka. He was an ODS candidate for European Parliament election in 2009 and received the seventh largest number of preference votes in the party. He has been the deputy minister of industry and trade of the Czech Republic since January 2022.

Political career

Kožušník was one of the team responsible for launching Czech governmental think-tank eStat.cz. Subsequently, he began campaigning for the abolition of concessionary fees in the Czech Republic.

In 2014, he ran for leadership of ODS, but was defeated by Petr Fiala.

During the 2018 presidential election campaign, Kožušník joined Mirek Topolánek's team.[1]

Personal life

Kožušník's wife is Spanish and they have two children.[2]

References

  1. Web site: 50 tisíc? To ses moc nepochlapil, vzkazuje Langerovi. Jak dělá Topolánek kampaň. www.seznam.cz. 24 November 2017.
  2. Web site: Edvard Kožušník. ODS.cz. 28 July 2022.

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