Bohuslav Sobotka
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010 Acting: 29 May 2010 – 21 March 2011
President	Miloš Zeman
Deputy	Andrej Babiš Pavel Bělobrádek
Preceded by	Jiří Paroubek
In office 26 April 2005 – 13 May 2006 Acting
Preceded by	Stanislav Gross
Succeeded by	Jiří Paroubek
Minister of Finance
In office 12 July 2002 – 4 September 2006
Prime Minister	Vladimír Špidla Stanislav Gross Jiří Paroubek
Preceded by	Jiří Rusnok
Succeeded by	Vlastimil Tlustý
Personal details
Born	(1971-10-23) 23 October 1971 (age 53) Telnice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Alma mater	Masaryk University

Bohuslav Sobotka (born October 23, 1971 in Telnice) is a Czech politician who has been leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party since 2010. He was designated the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on 17 January 2014. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996, becoming President of the Parliament in 2001. In 2002, Sobotka entered the cabinet as Minister of Finance, where he stayed until 2006.^[2] Sobotka also was Deputy Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004 and from 2005 to 2006.

In addition to remaining in Chamber of Deputies, Sobotka is party leader of the CSDP. He served as interim leader after the resignation of Jiří Paroubek following the elections in May 2010. On 21 March 2011 Sobotka was officially elected party chairman. Sobotka also briefly served as interim chairman in 2006, after the resignation of Stanislav Gross.^[3]

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