| Ondřej Knotek | |
| Party: | Czech Pirate Party (2012–2015) ANO 2011 (2015–present) |
| Constituency Mp: | Czech Republic |
| Term Start: | 2 July 2019[1] |
| Parliament: | European |
| Birth Date: | 31 August 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Sušice, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Alma Mater: | University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague |
Ondřej Knotek (born 31 August 1984) is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[2]
In parliament, Knotek has since been serving on the Committee on Regional Development. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer.[3]
Prior to being a member of the European Parliament, Knotek worked as a quality manager in an engineering company in Tachov.[4] He also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Mariánské Lázně Hospital between 2015 and 2016.[5]
In 2014 Czech municipal elections, Knotek was elected as a representative of the city of Mariánské Lázně from the position of the leader of the pirate candidate.[6] He went on to become a city councilor,[7] but left Czech Pirate Party in June 2015 due to a "value split" and joined the ANO 2011 movement a few months later.[8] Knotek resigned as a city councilor in March 2016.[9] In the 2018 Czech Senate election, he failed to defend the mandate of the city representative as a member of ANO 2011.[10]
During the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek finished fifth place as an MEP for the ANO 2011 movement.[11] [12] In 2020 Czech regional elections, he ran for the Representative Office of the Karlovy Vary region from the 38th place, but was not elected.[13] In the 2022 Czech municipal elections, he did not ran for the Mariánské Lázně council from the last 21st place of the candidate list.[14]
During the 2024 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek defended the MEP mandate as a member of the ANO movement in the third place of the candidates.[15] The movement won the election and he defended his mandate with 8,565 preferential votes.[16]