Jan Fischer (politician)

Jan Fischer ( born January 2, 1951 in Prague) is a Czech politician and statistician. He stood at the head of the government fishing, which was to 13 July 2010 as the transitional government on 8 May 2009 in office, he was also Minister of Finance in the government Jiří Rusnok.

Life

Jan Fischer comes from a Jewish family, his father is a survivor of the Holocaust. He studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1974. From 1980 to 1989 he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after completing his studies, he joined the Czechoslovak statistics agency work. There in 1990 he was deputy head and kept this position until the separation of the state in 1993. In April 2003 he was appointed head of the Czech Statistical Office ( Český statistický úřad ) appointed.

He is married for the second time and has three children. Fischer lives with his family in an apartment block in the areas of Prague Barrandov. As prime minister, he refused to move to the official service villa.

Policy

Prime minister

After the fall of the government Topolánek II in March 2009 Jan Fischer was commissioned on 9 April 2009 in order to form a transitional government of nonparty who should take over the business of government to call an election in October 2009. However, the Constitutional Court declared the dissolution of Parliament invalid. A subsequent run constitutional amendment met with many elected officials on legal concerns. Therefore fishermen government remained until the regular election date at 28-29. May 2010 at the office.

On 8 May 2009 he and his government of experts were sworn. He took with it the Presidency of the European Council under the Czech Presidency, which was still going on until 30 June 2009.

From the Office of the Prime Minister Fischer joined in accordance with the provisions of the constitution after the constitution of the newly elected Chamber of Deputies back on June 25, 2010. He then until mid-2012 Vice- President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

On July 10, 2013 he was sworn in by the President Miloš Zeman as finance minister and first deputy prime minister Jiří Rusnok. He held until January 2014 These functions.

Presidential nomination in 2013

Jan Fischer ran in the presidential election in 2013 and was in the polls as one of the favorites. He received 16.35 % but behind Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg only the third highest share of the vote and thus left in the first ballot.