Education
Charles University in Prague.
Charles University in Prague.
She served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Czechoslovakian Republic, and was the first woman to hold this position. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2010 election, representing Public Affairs (VV), but left in April 2012 with seven other MPs. She was appointed Minister of Defense in December 2012, but was dismissed by Prime Minister Petr Nečas eight days later, due to criticism of her rapid replacement of ministry deputies.
After this, she worked as trainee lawyer in the Czechoslovakian branch of Baker & McKenzie.
Thereafter, she began to be involved in local politics, including campaigns to save a local park and to extend local children"s playgrounds. In 2006, she was elected to the town council of Prague 1 as independent for Public Affairs.
The party she founded after breaking away from VV took the name "LIDEM", which means "for the people" in Czechoslovakian, and is also based on the first letters of "Liberal Democrats".
She was a member of Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 1998, during her studies at university.