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Lubomír Metnar

Lubomír Metnar (born 6 October 1967) is a Czech politician. He became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2021, working as a non-party member of the ANO 2011 movement.

Lubomír Metnar
MP
Metnar in 2018
Minister of Defence
In office
27 June 2018 – 17 December 2021
Prime MinisterPetr Fiala
Preceded byKarla Šlechtová
Succeeded byJana Černochová
Minister of the Interior
In office
13 December 2017 – 27 June 2018
Prime MinisterAndrej Babiš
Preceded byMilan Chovanec
Succeeded byJan Hamáček
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
9 October 2021
Personal details
Born (1967-10-06) 6 October 1967 (age 56)
Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
Political partyBOS (2017)
Independent (nominated by ANO 2011) (2017–present)
Alma materUniversity of Ostrava
Signature

Early life and education edit

Metnar joined the service of Public Security on 1 October 1987,[1] before becoming an executive three years later.[2] He worked at the Public Safety Emergency Regiment from 1 March 1988 until 23 February 1989.[3]

Metnar attended Secondary Police School of the Ministry of the Interior in Holešov from 1992 until 1993,[4] where he was obliged to supplement the education obtained at the civilian school, with a professional security education at the departmental school of the Ministry of the Interior.[5]

Metnar graduated from University of Ostrava, receiving the M.Sc. whilst majoring in economics.[6] He served as deputy chairman of the board of VTK Special a.s. until 2015,[7] then served member of the supervisory board of the joint-stock company Vítkovice Heavy Machinery until 2016.[8]

Political career edit

Metnar was a member of the BOS political party, only to have left when some members voted for the Czech Republic to leave NATO and the European Union. He stated: "It is not true that I would ever hold an opinion about withdrawing from these structures."[9]

At the end of November 2017, Metnar announced candidacy as Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic in the First Cabinet of Andrej Babiš.[10][11] The same year on 13 December, President Miloš Zeman appointed Metnar to this position.[12]

2018 Czech presidential election edit

Before the 2018 Czech presidential election, Metnar denied the information that Zeman automatically advances to the second round.[13] It was ironically delivered by Jindřich Šídlo in the talk show Šťastné Pondělí,[14] prior to being distributed in a printed form in a different wording by an unknown person to mailboxes in Ostrava.[15] However, Metnar did not refute the false information about the opponent in the second round, Jiří Drahoš, as they had a different nature of seriousness.[16]

At the end of June 2018, Babiš appointed Metnar to his second cabinet, this time as Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic.[17] The latter also resigned as Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic.[18]

On 29 September 2020, together with other members of the cabinet, Metnar called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[19]

2021 Czech parliamentary election edit

In the 2021 Czech parliamentary election, Metnar ran as a non-party candidate in the second place as ANO 2011 candidate in the Moravian-Silesian Region.[20] He received 6,481 preferential votes and thus became an MP.[21]

Controversy edit

In 2018, Czech Television accused Metnar of plagiarism his diploma work,[22] to which he later apologised.[23] Mikuláš Bek, rector of Masaryk University pointed out, that the unintentional omission of a citation or source is also considered plagiarism.[24]

References edit

  1. ^ "Zákon o služebním poměru příslušníků SNB". pohotovostni-utvar-vb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 9 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Nařízením ministra vnitra č. 10 ze dne 10. března 1970, které vydává jednotné pokyny pro zřizováni pohotovostních útvarů Veřejné bezpečnosti ve smyslu usneseni vlády ČSSR" (PDF) (in Czech).
  3. ^ Hrbáček, Jan (13 December 2017). "Ministr z báckomanda. Minulost Babišova šéfa vnitra". Týden (in Czech). Prague: Empresa Media. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Historie Vyšší policejní školy a Střední policejní školy MV v Holešově". spshol.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Informace o výběru uchazečů pro službu v SNB". pohotovostni-utvar-vb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 9 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Lubomír Metnar". Government of the Czech Republic (in Czech). Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Úplný výpis z obchodního rejstříku | B 15677 vedená u Městského soudu v Praze". or.justice.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Úplný výpis z obchodního rejstříku | B 2486 vedená u Krajského soudu v Ostravě". or.justice.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  9. ^ Prchal, Lukáš (30 November 2017). "Kauza Čapí hnízdo ve mně vzbuzuje pochybnosti, budu se o ni zajímat, říká Babišův kandidát na vnitro". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Prague: Economia.
  10. ^ Srnka, Vojtěch; Valášek, Lukáš (29 November 2017). "Kandidát na vnitro Lubomír Metnar: vyšetřovatel žhářského útoku i exčlen hnutí proti EU". iDNES (in Czech). Prague: Mafra. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Babišova vláda: vnitro má vést exnáměstek Metnar, exčlen kontroverzního hnutí". Lidové noviny (in Czech). Prague: Borgis. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Zeman jmenoval Babišovu vládu. Přeje si, aby získala důvěru do února". iDNES (in Czech). Prague: Mafra. 13 December 2017.
  13. ^ "Prohlášení ministra vnitra k volbě prezidenta". Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (in Czech). Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  14. ^ Šídlo, Jindřich (8 January 2018). "Babišovi už se mají líp a slibují, že se budou mít ještě víc líp. Návod, jak přežít šílený leden". Seznam Zpravy (in Czech). Prague: Seznam.cz. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  15. ^ "Vnitro dementuje původně recesistickou zprávu o volbě Zemana". Echo24 (in Czech). 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  16. ^ Prchal, Lukáš; Zelenka, Jakub (7 February 2018). "Letáky o Zemanově přímém postupu byly závažnější než lži o Drahošovi v StB, tvrdí ministr vnitra". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  17. ^ Kopecký, Josef (22 June 2018). "Babiš zveřejnil návrh složení nové vlády. Budou v ní Malá i Nováková". iDNES (in Czech). Prague: Mafra.
  18. ^ Kopecký, Josef (27 June 2018). "Prezident jmenoval vládu bez Pocheho. Půjde ji osobně podpořit před poslance". iDNES (in Czech). Prague: Mafra.
  19. ^ "Boje v Náhorních Karabachu musí skončit, apelují čeští politici a vyzývají obě strany k diplomatickému řešení". Lidové noviny (in Czech). 29 September 2020.
  20. ^ "Babiš povede kandidátku ANO v Ústeckém kraji, utká se s Bartošem". České noviny (in Czech). 28 July 2021. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021.
  21. ^ "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 8.10. – 9.10.2021". volby.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  22. ^ "Také diplomová práce ministra obrany Metnara vzbuzuje pochybnosti". ČT24 (in Czech). Prague: Czech Television. 24 July 2018.
  23. ^ "Ministr Metnar se omluvil za chybné citování. Rezignovat nehodlá". ČT24 (in Czech). Prague: Czech Television. 27 July 2018.
  24. ^ "Plagiátorství" [Plagiarism]. Masaryk University (in Czech). Retrieved 27 July 2018.

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