Miloš Zeman

Miloš Zeman
3rd President of the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2013
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas Jiří Rusnok Bohuslav Sobotka
Preceded by	Václav Klaus
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
In office 22 July 1998 – 15 July 2002
President	Václav Havel
Preceded by	Josef Tošovský
Succeeded by	Vladimír Špidla
Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 27 June 1996 – 17 July 1998
President	Václav Havel
Preceded by	Milan Uhde
Succeeded by	Václav Klaus
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office 28 February 1993 – 7 April 2001
Preceded by	Jiří Horák
Succeeded by	Vladimír Špidla
Personal details
Born	(1944-09-28) 28 September 1944 Kolín, Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic)
Political party	Communist Party (1968–70) Social Democratic Party (1992–2009) Party of Civic Rights (2009–present)
Alma mater	University of Economics, Prague
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Miloš Zeman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈzɛman]  ( listen); born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician. He became the third President of the Czech Republic on 8 March 2013. Before he was President, Zeman served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. He describes himself as a "tolerant atheist".

Other websites

Media related to Miloš Zeman at Wikimedia Commons

• Curriculum Vitae at the website of the Prague Castle
• Miloš Zeman on IMDb
• Miloš Zeman at the website of the Government of the Czech Republic (in Czech)