Lubomír Metnar

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
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 October 2021
Personal details
Born (1967-10-06) 6 October 1967 (age 57)
Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
Political partyBOS (2017)
Independent (nominated by ANO 2011) (2017–present)
Alma materUniversity of Ostrava
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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.

Early life and education

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

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

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

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

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

  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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