Tomáš Vandas
| Tomáš Vandas | |
|---|---|
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| Chairman of Workers' Party | |
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Assumed office 31 May 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Jiří Štěpánek |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 March 1969 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Political party |
RMS (1995–2003) Workers' Party (2003–) |
| Profession | Quality manager, politician |
| Website | http://www.tomasvandas.cz |
Tomáš Vandas (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈvandas]; born 3 March 1969) is a Czech politician who has been chairman of the non-parliamentary Workers' Party of Social Justice in the Czech Republic since 2003.
Education and occupation
Vandas was born in Prague. Having completed a plumbing course, he continued his education at the high school of industrial technology where he successfully completed with the Maturita exam. He is a graduate of the Jan Amos Komensky University of Prague, where he achieved a bachelor's degree in social and mass communication. His first job was in public transport services. Nowadays, he works as a quality manager in a construction company.[1]
Political career
He began to be politically active in 1995 as he was deeply dissatisfied with the political situation in the Czech Republic. From 1997-98 he started working for the Coalition for Republic - Republican Party of Czechoslovakia (firstly as an assistant of a MP, later as a member of party's audit committee). After the parliamentary elections in 1998 he gained a position of general secretary of SPR-RSČ. He is a founding member of the Workers' Party which was founded in 2003. He has been its chairman since 31 May 2003. He ran for the office in senate elections in 2010 but ended up unsuccessfully with 5,13%. In March 2012, Vandas announced he was going to run for Czech president [2] in the 2013 direct presidential elections, but failed to collect the required 50,000 signatures.
References
- ↑ (In Czech)Biography tomasvandas.cz
- ↑ "Leader of far-right DSSS Vandas running for Czech president". Ceskenoviny.cz. 3 March 2012.