Pavel Bělobrádek

Pavel Bělobrádek (Czech pronunciation: ; born 25 December 1976) is a Czech politician who served as leader of KDU-ČSL from 2010 to 2019.

Pavel Bělobrádek
Pavel Bělobrádek
Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Minister of Science and Research
In office
29 January 2014 – 13 December 2017
Prime MinisterBohuslav Sobotka
Preceded byMartin Pecina
Succeeded byRichard Brabec
Martin Stropnický
Leader of KDU-ČSL
In office
20 November 2010 – 29 March 2019
Preceded byCyril Svoboda
Succeeded byMarek Výborný
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
26 October 2013
Personal details
Born (1976-12-25) 25 December 1976 (age 47)
Náchod, Czechoslovakia
Political partyKDU-ČSL
ProfessionVeterinary physician

Political career

2010–2013

In the 2010 Czech parliamentary election, Bělobrádek received 280 votes as an elected representative of Náchod.

On 8 June 2013, Bělobrádek was re-elected chairman of KDU-ČSL the convention in Olomouc, only to be opposed by Zuzana Roithová.

In the 2013 Czech parliamentary election, Bělobrádek ran in the Hradec Králové Region as the leader of the KDU-ČSL. He was later elected chairman of the KDU-ČSL Parliamentary Club. On 27 November 2013, Bělobrádek was elected Deputy Speaker, winning 133 votes in a secret ballot. The same year in December, he resigned as chairman of the party's parliamentary club and was replaced by Marian Jurečka.

2014–2017

In January 2014, Bělobrádek became the KDU-ČSL candidate for the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Science, Research and Innovation in the Cabinet of Bohuslav Sobotka. The former also defended his position in the 2014 Czech municipal elections.

At the 2015 congress in Zlín, Bělobrádek was elected chairman of the KDU-ČSL for the third time. In the 2016 Czech regional elections, he managed to defend the mandate of the representative of the Hradec Králové region from the position of a party member.

2018 Czech municipal elections

On 1 February 2018, Bělobrádek announced his intention to run for the KDU-ČSL in the 2018 Czech municipal elections. He won the first round of the election with 26.62% votes. Bělobrádek faced Martin Červíček [cs] in the second round but ended up losing. In March 2019, Bělobrádek announced that he would no longer be the chairman of KDU-ČSL. He was succeeded by Marek Výborný.

2020s

In the 2020 Czech regional elections, Bělobrádek the leader of the Coalition for the Hradec Králové Region. He managed to defend the mandate of regional representative. On 2 November 2020, Bělobrádek also became the Second Deputy Governor of the Hradec Králové Region for Environment and Agriculture.

In the 2021 Czech parliamentary election, Bělobrádek was member of the KDU-ČSL in the second place candidate of the Spolu coalition. He received 10,691 preferential votes and was re-elected as an MP.

In the 2022 Czech municipal elections, Bělobrádek ran for council in Náchod from the 20th place of the KDU-ČSL candidate. He finished fourth place, but did not defend the mandate.

Personal life

Bělobrádek is married to his wife Jana. They have a son named Josef along with daughters, Anežka and Marie.

Before the 2010 Czech parliamentary election, Bělobrádek stated that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but his condition has been stable for ten years. One week after the unsuccessful parliamentary elections, Bělobrádek declared that the current situation of the People's Party is left behind.

References

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