Marie Stiborová | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Prague |
Term Start: | 6 June 1992 |
Term End: | 6 June 1996 |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1950 |
Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Death Date: | [1] |
Party: | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Left Bloc |
Alma Mater: | Charles University |
Marie Stiborová (2 February 1950 – 13 February 2020) was a Czech university lecturer, politician, and a member of the Czech National Council and Chamber of Deputies.[2] [3] [4] She was also the candidate for the Communist Party (KSČM) in the 1993 presidential election.[5] [6] She later became the leader of the reformist wing within KSČM and established the Left Bloc.[7]
Stiborová was born in 1950. She studied Chemistry at Charles University and became a lecturer at the university. She joined the Communist Party in 1976 and became a member of Parliament in 1986. The Communist Party nominated her for the president of the Czech Republic in 1993.[8] She lost to Václav Havel.
Stiborová left the Communist Party in 1993 and established Left Bloc.[9] She left politics in 1997.