Ondřej Knotek

Ondřej Knotek
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019[1]
Personal details
Born (1984-08-31) 31 August 1984 (age 40)
Sušice, Czechoslovakia
NationalityCzech
Political partyCzech Pirate Party (2012–2015)
ANO 2011 (2015–present)
Alma materUniversity of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

Ondřej Knotek (born 31 August 1984) is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.[2]

In parliament, Knotek has since been serving on the Committee on Regional Development. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer.[3]

Early life

Prior to being a member of the European Parliament, Knotek worked as a quality manager in an engineering company in Tachov.[4] He also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Mariánské Lázně Hospital between 2015 and 2016.[5]

Political career

In 2014 Czech municipal elections, Knotek was elected as a representative of the city of Mariánské Lázně from the position of the leader of the pirate candidate.[6] He went on to become a city councilor,[7] but left Czech Pirate Party in June 2015 due to a "value split" and joined the ANO 2011 movement a few months later.[8] Knotek resigned as a city councilor in March 2016.[9] In the 2018 Czech Senate election, he failed to defend the mandate of the city representative as a member of ANO 2011.[10]

During the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek finished fifth place as an MEP for the ANO 2011 movement.[11][12] In 2020 Czech regional elections, he ran for the Representative Office of the Karlovy Vary region from the 38th place, but was not elected.[13] In the 2022 Czech municipal elections, he did not ran for the Mariánské Lázně council from the last 21st place of the candidate list.[14]

During the 2024 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek defended the MEP mandate as a member of the ANO movement in the third place of the candidates.[15] The movement won the election and he defended his mandate with 8,565 preferential votes.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 18 February 2019. Archived from the original on 20 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 2019". volby.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. ^ Members of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
  4. ^ "Seznam nových europoslanců. Kdo bude Česko zastupovat v Evropském parlamentu?". Czech Radio (in Czech). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Úplný výpis z obchodního rejstříku". or.justice.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí 2014" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Usnesení zastupitelstva 2014". Město Mariánské Lázně (in Czech). 12 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019.
  8. ^ Bežáková, Jana (27 May 2019). "Do Bruselu jede Ondřej Knotek". Deník (in Czech). Vltave Labe Media. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Zápis z 15. zasedání zastupitelstva mě" (PDF). Město Mariánské Lázně (in Czech). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí | ANO 2011" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky 2019" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  12. ^ Kopecký, Josef (2 May 2019). "Česko ochráníme. Tvrdě a nekompromisně, slibuje voličům Babišovo ANO". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Volby do zastupitelstev krajů konané dne 2020" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí 2020" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  15. ^ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 2024" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  16. ^ Menšík, Jan (9 June 2024). "Volby vyhrálo ANO. STAN skončilo až za Konečnou na pátém místě". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis.