Michal Hašek
Michal Hašek in 2014
Governor of South Moravian Region
In office
21 November 2008 – 6 November 2016
Preceded byStanislav Juránek
Succeeded byBohumil Šimek
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
15 June 2002 – 30 April 2014
Succeeded byVlastimil Gabrhel
Personal details
Born (1976-04-17) 17 April 1976
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Political partySocial Democracy
Alma materMasaryk University
Websitehttps://michalhasek.cz/

Michal Hašek (born 17 April 1976) is a Czech politician and former Governor of the South Moravian Region. From 2002 until 2014, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP). He also served as shadow Minister of Agriculture in the shadow cabinet of former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek.

In July 2018, Hašek became an external advisor to the Czech Minister of Agriculture, Miroslav Toman, as a member of the Ministerial Legislative Council.[1]

Early life and education

Hašek graduated from with a Masters' law degree from the Masaryk University Faculty of Law. He also received a juris degree from an obscure law school in the southwestern Slovak town of Sládkovičovo, but its validity has been called into question;[2] Hašek's thesis supervisor was Mojmír Mamojka, a politician from Slovakia's Smer party, leading to allegations of clientelism.[3] Hasek passed the bar exam in June 2021.[4]

Political career

Member of Czech parliament

In the 2002 Czech parliamentary election, Hasek was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from the South Moravian region, representing the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).[5] He remained in the Chamber of Deputies until the beginning of March 2009.[6]

Governor

Hašek gave up his parliamentary mandate on 27 February 2009, stating that it was not possible to combine the mandate well with being the governor of South Moravia.[7] After Jiří Paroubek resigned as head of ČSSD, Hašek announced his candidacy for chairman.[8]

2013 Czech parliamentary elections

At a meeting of the ČSSD presidency on 27 October 2013, Hašek and the mayor of Brno, Roman Onderka, attempted to exclude Bohuslav Sobotka from the negotiating team on the new government,[9] but were unable to do so due to greater support for Sobotka within the party than Hašek anticipated.[10] Hašek held a private meeting with President Miloš Zeman and other ČSSD figures to discuss how to proceed.[11] Hašek denied the meeting had taken place,[12] only for it to be confirmed by Milan Chovanec.[13]

After Zdeněk Škromach announced his resignation as vice-chairman of the party on 8 November 2013, Hašek also resigned from his position.[14] He said he was doing so in response to the party's poor election results, to calm the negative media campaign against him.[15] On 30 April 2014, Hašek submitted a notarized record of his resignation from the parliamentary mandate to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Jan Hamáček.[16]

2016: Czech regional elections and Brno central station referendum

In November 2015, Hašek was nominated as the lead candidate for ČSSD in the 2016 regional elections in South Moravia.[17][18] In the election he received 8,103 preferential votes, but his party finished third behind KDU-ČSL.[19]

Hašek was reported to be actively opposing the 2016 Brno central station referendum, encouraging Brno residents not to participate in the vote.[20] He called for a regional referendum on the location of the railway station in Brno, but this never came to pass.[21]

In the 2016 regional assembly elections in South Moravia, ANO became the largest party, and Hašek was replaced as governor by Bohumil Šimek on 16 November 2016.[22]

2020 Czech regional elections

In the 2020 Czech regional elections, Hašek again stood in the South Moravian Region for ČSSD. He was originally listed 18th on the candidate list, but ended up fourth due to preferential votes.[23] In April 2021, he resigned as a regional representative due to the incompatibility of his functions.[24]

Personal life

Hašek was married to Veronika with one daughter named Justýna. They divorced due to his alleged relationship with the head of his office, Šárka Rouzková.[25]

Controversy

Before the 2016 Czech regional elections, Mlada Fronta Dnes reported that Hašek had ordered marketing services worth 400,000 Czech Koruna from his partner, Jana Mrencová.[26] Her name was subsequently confirmed by former spokeswoman Denisa Kapitančiková, who stated that the lobbyist should repeatedly sign a contract with the office for 200,000 Czech Koruna.[27] Whilst searching for payments to Mrencová, journalists discovered that the South Moravian Region had paid at least 650,000 Czech Koruna to JT Media for the publication of positive articles over three years.[28] Mlada Fronta Dnes later reported that Mrencová had returned the money to the regional office.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "Hašek se vrací: Bývalý hejtman bude členem legislativní rady ministra zemědělství Tomana". info.cz (in Czech). 19 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Studýnka, Bohumil J. (18 March 2011). "Did Hašek have to earn a JUDr. from Sládkovičovo?". Czech Position. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Netočný, Tomáš (4 July 2011). "Sládkovičovo voní paprikou. Tady JUDr. Hašek získal tajný titul". Aktuálně.cz. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Exhejtman Hašek má advokátní zkoušky. Kazil jsem věkový průměr, směje se". iDNES (in Czech). 8 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky 2002". volby.cz (in Czech). 15 June 2002. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "JUDr. Michal Hašek". Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (in Czech). Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Lipold, Jan (22 August 2012). "Poslancem proti své vůli. Hrdinská oběť hejtmana Haška". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech).
  8. ↑ Komárková, Pavla; Lukšová, Barbora (27 February 2009). "Jihomoravský hejtman Michal Hašek se vzdal poslaneckého mandátu". iDNES (in Czech).
  9. ↑ "Sobotka je naším lídrem, potvrdila ČSSD. A varovala před falešnými mesiáši". Parlamentní Listy (in Czech). 24 August 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Hašek a spol. ztrácejí sílu, sociální demokraté v regionech stojí za Sobotkou". Hospodářské Noviny (in Czech). 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  11. ↑ Junek, Adam (29 October 2013). "Tajná schůzka šíbrů ČSSD obnažuje Českou televizi". ceskapozice.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 1 November 2013.
  12. ↑ "Kdo mluví pravdu? Schůzka v Lánech je podle Haška fáma". ČT24 (in Czech). 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  13. ↑ Svobodová, Ivana; Kundra, Ondřej (29 October 2013). "Nebudu na Haška žalovat, třeba si vzpomene". respekt.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  14. ↑ Wirnitzer, Jan; Válková, Hana; Venturová, Jitka; Kopecký, Josef (8 November 2013). "Aktéři lánské schůzky Hašek a Tejc odstoupili z funkcí ve vedení ČSSD". iDNES (in Czech).
  15. ↑ "Hašek a Tejc odstoupili z vedení ČSSD, mluví o likvidaci odpůrců". ČT24 (in Czech). 8 November 2013.
  16. ↑ "Hašek složí poslanecký mandát, zůstane jihomoravským hejtmanem". iDNES (in Czech). 23 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  17. ↑ Spěvák, Přemysl (21 November 2015). "Delegáti i Sobotka podpořili Haška. Novým krajským předsedou ČSSD je Hanák". Deník (in Czech). Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "Z bývalého jihomoravského hejtmana Michala Haška je advokátní koncipient". Czech Television (in Czech). 23 November 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  19. ↑ "Volby do zastupitelstev krajů konané dne 7.10. – 8.10.2016". Český statistický úřad (in Czech). Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  20. ↑ Jahn, Oliver (15 June 2016). "Bojkotuje Hašek za veřejné peníze referendum? Kraj investoval do antikampaně". echo24.cz (in Czech).
  21. ↑ Jeřábek, Petr (15 January 2015). "Hejtman Hašek: Ať o brněnském nádraží hlasují všichni v kraji". Deník (in Czech).
  22. ↑ "Haška v čele Jihomoravského kraje vystřídal Šimek". Novinky.cz (in Czech). 16 November 2016.
  23. ↑ "Volby do zastupitelstev krajů konané dne 2.10. – 3.10.2020". volby.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  24. ↑ "Exhejtman Hašek po téměř 20 letech skončil v jihomoravském zastupitelstvu". iDNES (in Czech). MAFRA. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  25. ↑ "Historie Haškova mlžení: popřel vztah s úřednicí, tajil rigorózní práci". iDNES (in Czech). 31 October 2013.
  26. ↑ "Za Haška léta komunikuje neexistující mluvčí, skrývá se za ní lobbistka". iDNES (in Czech). 19 July 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  27. ↑ "Pro Haška roky pracovala lobbistka Jana Mrencová, potvrdila jeho bývalá mluvčí". iDNES (in Czech). 2 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  28. ↑ "Jihomoravský kraj platil statisíce za pozitivní články o Haškovi". iDNES (in Czech). 4 August 2016.
  29. ↑ "Jak odstínit nepříjemné dotazy? Mrencová za to Haškovi účtovala 18 tisíc". iDNES (in Czech). 26 August 2016.
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