See also: Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. This is a list of prime ministers of the Czech Republic, a political office that was created in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
The Czech Republic is a parliamentary representative democracy, with the Prime Minister acting as head of government and the President acting as head of state.
The first Prime Minister of the Czech Republic was Václav Klaus, who served as the second President from 7 March 2003 until 7 March 2013. The current and 13th Prime Minister is Petr Fiala, leader of the ODS, who was appointed by the President on November 28, 2021.
6 March 1990 – 31 December 1992: called "Czech Republic" within Czechoslovakia.
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
| width=80 rowspan=2 | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||||||
| 6 | Petr Pithart | 6 February 1990 | 29 June 1990 | Civic Forum (OF) | I | KSČ – ČSL – OF – ČSS | 1986 | |||
| 29 June 1990 | 2 July 1992 | II | OF – HSD-SMS – KDU | 1990 | ||||||
| 6 | Civic Movement (OH) | |||||||||
| 7 | Václav Klaus | 2 July 1992 | 31 December 1992 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | I | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA – KDS | 1992 | |||
From 1 January 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
| width=80 rowspan=2 | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Election | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Designated | Took office | Left office | Days | ||||||||
| 1 | Václav Klaus | 1 January 1993 | 1 January 1993 | 4 July 1996 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | I | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA – KDS | 1992 | |||
| 4 July 1996 | 4 July 1996 | 2 January 1998 | II | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA | 1996 | ||||||
| 2 | Josef Tošovský | 17 December 1997 | 2 January 1998 | 22 July 1998 | Independent | • | ODS – KDU-ČSL – ODA | ||||
| 3 | Miloš Zeman | 17 July 1998 | 22 July 1998 | 15 July 2002 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | • | ČSSD | 1998 | |||
| 4 | Vladimír Špidla | 12 July 2002 | 15 July 2002 | 4 August 2004 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | • | ČSSD – KDU-ČSL – US–DEU | 2002 | |||
| 5 | Stanislav Gross | 26 July 2004 | 4 August 2004 | 25 April 2005 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | • | |||||
| 6 | Jiří Paroubek | 25 April 2005 | 25 April 2005 | 4 September 2006 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | • | |||||
| 7 | Mirek Topolánek | 16 August 2006 | 4 September 2006 | 9 January 2007 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | I | ODS | 2006 | |||
| 8 November 2006 | 9 January 2007 | 8 May 2009 | II | ODS – KDU-ČSL – SZ | |||||||
| 8 | Jan Fischer | 9 April 2009 | 8 May 2009 | 13 July 2010 | Independent | • | No party | ||||
| 9 | Petr Nečas | 28 June 2010 | 13 July 2010 | 10 July 2013 | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | • | ODS – TOP 09 – VV | 2010 | |||
| 10 | Jiří Rusnok | 25 June 2013 | 10 July 2013 | 29 January 2014 | Independent | • | ČSSD[1] – KDU-ČSL | ||||
| 11 | Bohuslav Sobotka | 17 January 2014 | 29 January 2014 | 13 December 2017 | Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | • | ČSSD – ANO 2011 – KDU-ČSL | 2013 | |||
| 12 | Andrej Babiš | 6 December 2017 | 13 December 2017 | 27 June 2018 | ANO 2011 | I | ANO 2011 | 2017 | |||
| 6 June 2018 | 27 June 2018 | 17 December 2021 | II | ANO 2011 – ČSSD | |||||||
| 13 | Petr Fiala | 28 November 2021 | 17 December 2021 | Incumbent | Civic Democratic Party (ODS) | • | SPOLU (ODS – KDU-ČSL – TOP 09) – PirStan (STAN – Piráti) | ||||
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