Vít Rakušan
Vít Rakušan | |
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Rakušan in 2023 | |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
| Assumed office 17 December 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Petr Fiala |
| Preceded by | Jan Hamáček |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 17 December 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Petr Fiala |
| Preceded by | Jan Hamáček |
| Leader of Mayors and Independents | |
| Assumed office 13 April 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Petr Gazdík |
| 1st Vice-Chairman of Mayors and Independents | |
| In office 16 April 2016 – 13 April 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Petr Gazdík |
| Succeeded by | Jan Farský |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 21 October 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 June 1978 Kolín, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) |
| Political party | Mayors and Independents |
| Spouse | Marie Rakušanová |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Charles University |
| Website | www |
Vít Rakušan (born 16 June 1978) is a Czech pedagogue and politician who has served as the leader of the Mayors and Independents (STAN) political party since 2019 and its 1st vice-chairman from 2016 to 2019. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since October 2017; an elected representative of the Central Bohemia Region since 2012, and was the mayor of the City of Kolín from 2010 to 2019. In 2021, he assumed the posts of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Petr Fiala.