Jiří Kobza
Jiří Kobza | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 21 October 2017 | |
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| Born | 27 December 1955 Prague, Czech Republic |
| Political party | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1987–1989) Freedom and Direct Democracy (2015–present) |
Jiří Kobza (born 27 December 1955) is a Czech politician, civil servant, businessman and former diplomatic attaché.
Biography
[edit]Kobza studied geography at Charles University followed by postgraduate studies at the Prague University of Economics and Business.
He worked as a clerk at the foreign trade company Strojexport for seven years, before joining the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in spring 1987, aged 31. He was also a member of the Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Union (SSM), Revoluční odborové hnutí (ROH) and ČSTV.[1]
From 2000 to 2004 Kobza worked at the Czech Embassy in Tehran, initially as a trade consul, and later as the Chargé d'affaires.[1] He lived and worked in various countries in the Middle East specializing in the export of geological works, before providing development assistance to the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, covering disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[2]
In 2015, he joined the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), and in 2017 was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Prague constituency.[3] Kobza received media attention when he published a blog and a pamphlet instructing the public on how to defend themselves against the "Islamization" of the Czech Republic.[4]
In autumn 2024, Kobza endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election, criticising Kamala Harris for her "marxist background" and "left wing ideology and progressivism". Kobza stated that he was a conservative, even though he had been a member of the communist party in the 1980s.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pšenička, Jiří (15 November 2024). "Je z marxistického prostředí, odsoudil poslanec SPD političku. Sám byl členem KSČ". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ "Jiří Kobza". Strana Práv Občanů - Střední Čechy (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2017-11-25. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
- ^ "Jmenné seznamy". volby.cz (in Czech).
- ^ "Podívali jsme se pod ruce Okamurových poslanců. Jejich stopa je dlouhá. A Rusko je opravdový Přítel". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Economia. 30 October 2017.
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- Living people
- 1955 births
- 20th-century Czech businesspeople
- 21st-century Czech businesspeople
- Freedom and Direct Democracy MPs
- Politicians from Prague
- Czech critics of Islam
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2017–2021)
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2021–2025)
- Charles University alumni
- Prague University of Economics and Business alumni
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia members