Ondřej Knotek

Ondřej Knotek (born 31 August 1984) is a Czech politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.^[2]

Ondřej Knotek MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019[1]
Personal details
Born	(1984-08-31) 31 August 1984 (age 40) Sušice, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czech
Political party	Czech Pirate Party (2012–2015) ANO 2011 (2015–present)
Alma mater	University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

In parliament, Knotek has since been serving on the Committee on Regional Development. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer.^[3]

Early life

Prior to being a member of the European Parliament, Knotek worked as a quality manager in an engineering company in Tachov.^[4] He also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Mariánské Lázně Hospital between 2015 and 2016.^[5]

Political career

In 2014 Czech municipal elections, Knotek was elected as a representative of the city of Mariánské Lázně from the position of the leader of the pirate candidate.^[6] He went on to become a city councilor,^[7] but left Czech Pirate Party in June 2015 due to a "value split" and joined the ANO 2011 movement a few months later.^[8] Knotek resigned as a city councilor in March 2016.^[9] In the 2018 Czech Senate election, he failed to defend the mandate of the city representative as a member of ANO 2011.^[10]

During the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek finished fifth place as an MEP for the ANO 2011 movement.^[11][12] In 2020 Czech regional elections, he ran for the Representative Office of the Karlovy Vary region from the 38th place, but was not elected.^[13] In the 2022 Czech municipal elections, he did not ran for the Mariánské Lázně council from the last 21st place of the candidate list.^[14]

During the 2024 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek defended the MEP mandate as a member of the ANO movement in the third place of the candidates.^[15] The movement won the election and he defended his mandate with 8,565 preferential votes.^[16]

References

1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 18 February 2019. Archived from the original on 20 February 2019.
2. "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 2019". volby.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
3. Members of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
4. "Seznam nových europoslanců. Kdo bude Česko zastupovat v Evropském parlamentu?". Czech Radio (in Czech). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
5. "Úplný výpis z obchodního rejstříku". or.justice.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
6. "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí 2014" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
7. "Usnesení zastupitelstva 2014". Město Mariánské Lázně (in Czech). 12 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019.
8. Bežáková, Jana (27 May 2019). "Do Bruselu jede Ondřej Knotek". Deník (in Czech). Vltave Labe Media. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
9. "Zápis z 15. zasedání zastupitelstva mě" (PDF). Město Mariánské Lázně (in Czech). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
10. "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí | ANO 2011" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
11. "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky 2019" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
12. Kopecký, Josef (2 May 2019). "Česko ochráníme. Tvrdě a nekompromisně, slibuje voličům Babišovo ANO". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
13. "Volby do zastupitelstev krajů konané dne 2020" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
14. "Volby do zastupitelstev obcí 2020" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
15. "Volby do Evropského parlamentu konané na území České republiky ve dnech 2024" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
16. Menšík, Jan (9 June 2024). "Volby vyhrálo ANO. STAN skončilo až za Konečnou na pátém místě". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis.

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