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Lubomír Metnar (born 6 October 1967) is a Czech politician. He became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2021, working as a non-party member of the ANO 2011 movement.
Lubomír Metnar | |
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![]() Metnar in 2018 | |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 27 June 2018 – 17 December 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Petr Fiala |
Preceded by | Karla Šlechtová |
Succeeded by | Jana Černochová |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 13 December 2017 – 27 June 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Andrej Babiš |
Preceded by | Milan Chovanec |
Succeeded by | Jan Hamáček |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 9 October 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Olomouc, Czechoslovakia | 6 October 1967
Political party | BOS (2017) Independent (nominated by ANO 2011) (2017–present) |
Alma mater | University of Ostrava |
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Metnar joined the service of Public Security on 1 October 1987,[1] before becoming an executive three years later.[2] He worked at the Public Safety Emergency Regiment from 1 March 1988 until 23 February 1989.[3]
Metnar attended Secondary Police School of the Ministry of the Interior in Holešov from 1992 until 1993,[4] where he was obliged to supplement the education obtained at the civilian school, with a professional security education at the departmental school of the Ministry of the Interior.[5]
Metnar graduated from University of Ostrava, receiving the M.Sc. whilst majoring in economics.[6] He served as deputy chairman of the board of VTK Special a.s. until 2015,[7] then served member of the supervisory board of the joint-stock company Vítkovice Heavy Machinery until 2016.[8]
Metnar was a member of the BOS political party, only to have left when some members voted for the Czech Republic to leave NATO and the European Union. He stated: "It is not true that I would ever hold an opinion about withdrawing from these structures."[9]
At the end of November 2017, Metnar announced candidacy as Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic in the First Cabinet of Andrej Babiš.[10][11] The same year on 13 December, President Miloš Zeman appointed Metnar to this position.[12]
Before the 2018 Czech presidential election, Metnar denied the information that Zeman automatically advances to the second round.[13] It was ironically delivered by Jindřich Šídlo in the talk show Šťastné Pondělí,[14] prior to being distributed in a printed form in a different wording by an unknown person to mailboxes in Ostrava.[15] However, Metnar did not refute the false information about the opponent in the second round, Jiří Drahoš, as they had a different nature of seriousness.[16]
At the end of June 2018, Babiš appointed Metnar to his second cabinet, this time as Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic.[17] The latter also resigned as Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic.[18]
On 29 September 2020, together with other members of the cabinet, Metnar called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[19]
In the 2021 Czech parliamentary election, Metnar ran as a non-party candidate in the second place as ANO 2011 candidate in the Moravian-Silesian Region.[20] He received 6,481 preferential votes and thus became an MP.[21]
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In 2018, Czech Television accused Metnar of plagiarism his diploma work,[22] to which he later apologised.[23] Mikuláš Bek, rector of Masaryk University pointed out, that the unintentional omission of a citation or source is also considered plagiarism.[24]
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