Marek Ženíšek

Marek Ženíšek (born 26 November 1978), is a Czech politician and political scientist. From 2009 to 2019, he was the vice-chairman of TOP 09 (from 2015 to 2017 First Vice-chairman of the party). From 2013 to 2017, he was the Member of the Chamber of Deputies, a former Deputy Minister of Justice, and former First Deputy Minister of Health. Since 2020, Ženíšek is a representative of the Pilsen Region and a Deputy Governor.[1]

Marek Ženíšek
1st Vice-Chairman TOP 09
In office
29 November 2015 – 26 November 2017
Preceded byMiroslav Kalousek
Succeeded byMarkéta Pekarová Adamová
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
9 October 2021
In office
26 October 2013 – 26 October 2017
Personal details
Born
Marek Ženíšek

(1978-11-26) 26 November 1978
Plzeň, Czechoslovakia
Political partyTOP 09
Alma materUniversity of West Bohemia

Biography

Marek Ženíšek was born in Plzeň on 26 November 1978.

Education

Ženíšek graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (now the Faculty of Arts) and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. In 2006, he received a doctorate in political science from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

He is the author or co-author of several books and professional texts on the topic of political and electoral systems, he is the scientific secretary of the Czech Society for Political Science. Since 2003, he has been lecturing at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and since 2008 also at the Metropolitan University of Prague.[2] He had previously spent a year on parental leave.

Political activity

From 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party. In June 2009, he became a member of the Preparatory Committee of TOP 09. At the National Constituent Assembly of the party, held on 27 and 28 November 2009, he was elected vice-chairman of TOP 09. At the 2nd National Assembly of TOP 09, which took place on 22–23. October 2011 in Hradec Králové, he defended the position of vice-chairman of TOP 09. As the party's vice-chairman, TOP 09 was responsible for foreign relations.[3] At the 3rd National Assembly TOP 09 in Prague, he was re-elected vice-chairman of the party on 8 December 2013.[4] Two years later, in November 2015, at the 4th TOP 09 National Assembly in Prague, he was elected the party's 1st vice-chairman. He received 124 votes out of 173 possible delegates (i.e. 72%). He replaced Miroslav Kalousek, who became the party's chairman.[5]

In 2007, he started working at the Ministry of Justice, since 2008 as a Deputy Minister. He was also a member of the Government Council for National Minorities. At the beginning of 2012, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Health by Leoš Heger. He dealt mainly with the topic of economic management of both the Ministry of Health itself and its directly managed organizations. He was at the birth and created the institutional space for the long-term project Reform of Psychiatry in the Czech Republic.[3] In connection with the inauguration of Jiří Rusnok's government on 1 August 2013, he resigned from the position of First Deputy Minister of Health, because according to his words he could not imagine continuing at the ministry, as he was also vice-chairman of TOP 09.[6]

After the municipal elections in 2006, he became a representative in one of the city districts of the city of Pilsen (he held the mandate until 2010). In the regional elections in the autumn of 2012, he was elected a member of the Pilsen Regional Council. However, in cooperation with the position of Deputy Minister of Health, he decided to resign as Deputy.[7]

In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2013, he ran in the Pilsen Region as the leader of TOP 09 and was elected.[8] He was also the leader of TOP 09 in the Pilsen Region in the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2017, but he failed to defend his mandate.[9][10] At the end of November 2017, he was elected TOP 09 vice-chairman, and was replaced by Markéta Pekarová Adamová as the party's first vice-chairman.[11]

In the elections to the European Parliament in May 2019, he ran as a member of TOP 09 in 6th place as a candidate of an entity called "Mayors (STAN) with regional partners and TOP 09", but was not elected.[12][13] In November 2019, he tried to defend the position of vice-chairman of TOP 09, but had failed.[14]

Ženíšek criticized the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.[15]

In the regional elections in 2020, he was elected a member of the Pilsen Region as a member of TOP 09, namely as a candidate for the "Civic Democratic Party with the support of TOP 09 and independent mayors" group.[16] On 12 November 2020, he also became a councilor of the Pilsen Region for culture and monument care.[17]

In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2021, the candidate of the SPOLU coalition (i.e. ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09) in the Plzeň Region is running for the position of member of TOP 09.[18]

Personal life

Ženíšek is married and has a son. His leisure interests include reading, sports and traveling.[3]

References
  1. "Plzeňský kraj povede Ilona Mauritzová" [The Pilsen Region will be led by Ilona Mauritzová]. www.plzensky-kraj.cz (in Czech). 23 November 2020 [12 November 2020].
  2. "Západočeská univerzita - Zaměstnanci". old.zcu.cz.
  3. "Marek Ženíšek". www.top09.cz. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  4. "TOP 09 potvrdila lídry. Kalousek varoval před monarchou a oligarchou".
  5. "Sledovali jsme ŽIVĚ: Sjezd TOP 09: Strana si zvolila vedení, Kalousek je novým předsedou, Ženíšek 1. místopředseda | EuroZprávy.cz - Aktuální události z domova i ze světa". 2015-12-08. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  6. Nohl, Radek (2013). "S Hegerem a Kubicem končí i jejich první náměstci".
  7. "Jmenné seznamy | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  8. "TOP 09 vybrala krajské lídry - Novinky.cz". www.novinky.cz. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  9. "Volby 2017 do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu ČR | TOP 09". 2017-08-10. Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  10. "Jmenné seznamy | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  11. "Pospíšil vede TOP 09. Varoval před Babišem a putinovským Ruskem". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  12. "Deník Referendum". 2019-02-20. Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  13. "Jmenné seznamy | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  14. "Předsedkyní TOP 09 se stala Pekarová Adamová. Pospíšil nebude ani řadovým místopředsedou". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  15. "Ambasádu by do Jeruzaléma měla přesunout i Česká republika, řekl Zeman". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  16. "Jmenné seznamy | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  17. "Budu se věnovat i kvalitě života v malých obcích, slíbila nová hejtmanka". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  18. "Kandidáti pro Plzeňský kraj | Koalice SPOLU". www.spolu21.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2021-09-15.
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