Jan Fischer | |
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Fischer in 2010 | |
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
In office 9 April 2009 – 13 July 2010 | |
President | Václav Klaus |
Preceded by | Mirek Topolánek |
Succeeded by | Petr Nečas |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 10 July 2013 – 29 January 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Jiří Rusnok |
Preceded by | Miroslav Kalousek |
Succeeded by | Andrej Babiš |
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | |
In office 10 July 2013 – 29 January 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Jiří Rusnok |
Preceded by | Karel Schwarzenberg |
Succeeded by | Andrej Babiš |
President of the Statistical Office | |
In office 24 April 2003 – 27 July 2010 | |
Preceded by | Marie Bohatá |
Succeeded by | Iva Ritschelová |
Personal details | |
Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) | 2 January 1951
Political party | Communist Party (1980–1989) Independent (1989–present) |
Spouse | Dana Fischerová |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | University of Economics |
Jan Fischer (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈfɪʃɛr]; born 2 January 1951) is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010, heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of Jiří Rusnok.[1]
A lifelong statistician, he served as president of the Czech Statistical Office beginning in April 2003.[2]
In 2012, Fischer announced his candidacy for the 2013 presidential election. In the first round of the election, held in January 2013, he placed third with 16.35% of the vote (841,437 votes).[3] He did not qualify for the second round.
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