Petr Pithart

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::summary Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist ::

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Field	Value
name	Petr Pithart
image	Petr Pithart 2023 Praha.jpg
caption	Pithart in 2023
office	Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (Federal region)
president	Václav Havel
term_start	6 February 1990
term_end	2 July 1992
predecessor	František Pitra
successor	Václav Klaus
office1	President of the Czech Senate
term_start1	8 January 1996
term_end1	16 November 1998
predecessor1	Office established
successor1	Libuše Benešová
term_start2	19 December 2000
term_end2	15 December 2004
predecessor2	Ivan Havlíček (acting)
successor2	Přemysl Sobotka
office3	Senator from Chrudim
term_start3	23 November 1996
term_end3	28 October 2012
predecessor3	Office established
successor3	Jan Veleba
birth_date
birth_place	Kladno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
nationality	Czech
party	KSČ (1959-68)
OF (1989-91)
OH (1991-92)
KDU–ČSL (since 1998)
otherparty
spouse	Drahomíra Hromádková
partner
children	David
Klára
alma_mater	Charles University
occupation	Lawyer
website	pithart.cz
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|relations = |children = David Klára |residence = |alma_mater = Charles University |occupation = Lawyer |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = |website = pithart.cz |footnotes = Petr Pithart (born 2 January 1941) is a Czech politician, lawyer and political scientist who served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (then a federal region of Czechoslovakia) from 6 February 1990 to 2 July 1992. He was also the Senator for Chrudim from 1996 to 2012 and served as President of the Senate from 8 January 1996 to 16 December 1998 and again from 19 December 2000 to 15 December 2004.

On 1 January 2018 Pithart received the Order of the White Double Cross state award (second class) from Slovak President Andrej Kiska.

Political career

Pithart was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1960, was active in the Prague Spring, and left the party after the Soviet invasion. He was later one of the most prominent dissidents against the communist regime, and was imprisoned for his activities, including being one of the first signatories of Charter 77. In 1989 he was one of the prominent leaders of the Civic Forum, founded at the start of the Velvet Revolution. Having participated in the negotiations leading to changes to the federal, Czech and Slovak governments, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic.

Pithart is often characterised as a philosopher and thinker, rather than a tactical or charismatic leader. His 1990-92 Czech government was unable to deal with the growing power of federal Finance Minister Václav Klaus and his increasingly popular Civic Democratic Party, nor growing Slovak nationalism, which culminated in the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and defeat for Pithart's Civic Movement party.

Pithart was unsuccessful in his bid to become President of the Czech Republic at the 2003 election, losing to Václav Klaus.

In 1998 Pithart joined the Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party. He was elected as senator in 1996, and re-elected in 2000 and 2006. He was the First Deputy Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 2004 to 2012. He retired in 2012.

References

References

1. (1 January 2018). "Slováci na výročí vyznamenávali. I Čechy Kubišovou a Pitharta".
2. "Senátní volby 1. Kolo 2018: Kandidáti a výsledky | BetArena.cz".

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