Jan Sobotka (born 25 July 1961) is a

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politician. He has served as mayor of

Vrchlabí Vrchlabí (; , ) is a town in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. It lies at the foot of the Giant Mountains on the river Elbe. The town centre with the castle complex, monastery c ...

since 1998 and

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from

Trutnov Trutnov (; ) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument zone. Administrative division Trutnov consists of 21 ...

since 2018.

Biography

Sobotka was born in

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(now

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). He studied

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. He finished his studies in 1988. He worked at Agrostav Dvůr Králové nad Labem and in 1990 he started his own business.

Political career

Sobotka was a member of the Civic Democratic Party in the 1990s and in 1994 he was elected a member of Vrchlabí municipal assembly. He became Mayor of Vrchlabí in 1998. He was an independent candidate nominated by

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(US). He ran as candidate of US for Senate in 2008 senate election but wasn't elected. Sobotka ran in 2018 by-election in Trutnov district. He was nominated by

Mayors and Independents The Mayors and Independents (, STAN) is a liberal political party in the Czech Republic, focused on localism, regionalism and subsidiarity. It holds 33 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and is the third strongest party by number of seats fol ...

and supported by the Civic Democratic Party,

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and

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. Sobotka defeated Hlavatý on 13 January 2018.

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