Jiří Pospíšil | |
Office: | Leader of TOP 09 |
Term Start: | 26 November 2017 |
Term End: | 24 November 2019 |
Predecessor: | Miroslav Kalousek |
Successor: | Markéta Pekarová Adamová |
Office1: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start1: | 13 July 2010 |
Term End1: | 27 June 2012 |
Primeminister1: | Petr Nečas |
Predecessor1: | Daniela Kovářová |
Successor1: | Pavel Blažek |
Term Start2: | 4 September 2006 |
Term End2: | 8 May 2009 |
Primeminister2: | Mirek Topolánek |
Predecessor2: | Pavel Němec |
Successor2: | Daniela Kovářová |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 15 June 2002 |
Term End3: | 20 June 2014 |
Office4: | Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic |
Term Start4: | 1 July 2014 |
Term End4: | 15 July 2024 |
Title5: | Chairman of the Government Legislative Council |
Term Start5: | 13 July 2010 |
Term End5: | 13 July 2011 |
Primeminister5: | Petr Nečas |
Predecessor5: | Pavel Zářecký |
Successor5: | Karolína Peake |
Term Start6: | 4 September 2006 |
Term End6: | 9 January 2007 |
Primeminister6: | Mirek Topolánek |
Predecessor6: | Pavel Zářecký |
Successor6: | Cyril Svoboda |
Birth Date: | 24 November 1975 |
Birth Place: | Chomutov, Czechoslovakia |
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.
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.