Election of the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic was held on 10 November 2021.
Background.
Following 2021 Czech legislative election new President of the Chamber of Deputies will be elected at first meeting of the new Chamber of Deputies. Meeting would be called by President no later than 30 days following the election. If President doesn't call it then it will be held 30 day after election. Legislative election was won by conservative alliance SPOLU ahead of populist ANO 2011. Liberal alliance Pirates and Mayors (PaS) came third while nationalist Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) was fourth.
SPOLU and PaS agreed following legislative election that upcoming President would be a representative of upcoming governing coalition. Marian Jurečka stated that SPOLU as a victor of legislative election will seek to get its representative to be the new President. Incumbent President Radek Vondráček stated that ANO 2011 will also nominate its candidate. Deputy leader of ODS Zbyněk Stanjura confirmed on 12 October 2021 that SPOLU will nominate its candidate for President. ANO 2011 leader Andrej Babiš announced on 12 October 2021 that his party decided to not nominate its candidate. SPOLU announced leader of TOP 09 Markéta Pekarová Adamová on 19 October 2021. She also gained support of Pirates and Mayors On 8 November 2021 ANO 2011 nominated Minister Karel Havlíček as its candidate.
Voting.
Voting was scheduled for constituent meeting on 8 November 2021 but the meeting was adjourned until 10 November 2021. Voting was held on 10 November 2021. Havlíček was disqualified from election as he was holding position in a government making him ineligible to run. Adamová was thus the only candidate. She received 102 votes thus winning the election.
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