Stanislav Gross

Stanislav Gross (born 30 October 1969 in Prague) is a Czech politician of the Social Democratic Party and former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic CSSD. He joined because of an affair back to luxury apartments.

Life

After graduating from the traffic Secondary School in Prague, Stanislav Gross worked from 1984 to 1988 as an electrical mechanic and locomotive engineer associate at the Czechoslovak railways. In 1989, he joined the Social Democratic CSSD. Besides his activities as a member of parliament from 1993 to 1999, he studied law at the Charles University in Prague. In 2004 he received the degree of JUDr. (so-called " smaller doctorate " ) at the Law Faculty of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

Gross is accused by critics to have acquired its financial statements unlawfully. His thesis on the development of the Czech banking sector during the transformation had only about 33 pages. He had also allegedly filed a demanding German exam in the course of his studies, although it is known that he does not speak German.

As part of a scandal involving the illegal rental of academic titles at the Law Faculty of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in 2009 it came out that Gross' rigorous work on the subject was one of those works "Development of financial management since 1918 ", which in the archives of the University could not be traced. The Rector of the University, Josef Průša, claiming that the work lies in a vault of the Dean, the former used as interim dean Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil said, however, have not found her there. The only person who claims to have seen and read the work, was Milan Kindl, the protagonist of the affair, who had to resign from his position as dean of the law faculty and other offices. The affair, however, has had no impact on Stanislav Gross today.

After his resignation from the political offices Gross worked in a law firm in Prague. Bigger He caused a sensation through stock speculation, which brought him within a short time for a greater capacity.

Policy

In 1989, he joined the re-founded Social Democratic Party, where he made quick career. In 1990 he was elected chairman of the Young Socialists. This office he held until 1994.

From 1992 Gross is one of the Parliament. As of January 1995, he was leader of the CSSD. As of 4 April 2000, he was Minister of the Interior in the government of Miloš Zeman and then also in the government of Vladimír Špidla.

After Špidla's resignation he was appointed by President Václav Klaus as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on 2 July 2004. The presented by him government received on 24 August 2004 the confidence of Parliament. He also took over as acting head of the Social Democratic Party.

Gross, who was ranked in terms of popularity of Czech politicians long time on one of the front seats, is considered skillful negotiator and master of compromise. Still, he could not stop the popularity decline of his party, to the regional parliaments suffered heavy losses on 5 and 6 November 2004 by-election to the Senate and the elections.

In February 2005, were raised serious allegations against Gross of several newspapers because of a dubious loan for buying a luxury apartment in Prague and because of the entrepreneurial activities of his wife. He was not able to explain how he had converted 30,000 euros for the apartment. The Christian Democrats ( KDU- CSL ), the second largest party in the governing coalition, then called Gross' resignation. He threatened again in order to dismiss the Christian Democrat ministers from the government. Finally, it was agreed to wait for the Easter held Congress of the Social Democrats. In this major was elected on 26 March 2005, 53 % of the votes for party chairman, his rival candidate, Labour Minister Zdeněk Škromach, received 37 % of votes. On 30 March 2005, the Christian Democrats finally announced their withdrawal from the coalition and announced also to plan to vote for a scheduled for 1 April 2005 no-confidence vote against Gross. When the vote is contained the 41 deputies of the Communist Party KSČM, thereby reducing the required number of votes for the deselection of Gross was not achieved. Gross announced initially wanted to work until the scheduled end of the legislative session in June 2006 with a minority government. On 25 April 2005, he declared then, however, his resignation from the post of prime minister. Even the office of party chairman, he had to give to Jiří Paroubek.

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