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Jan Farský (born 11 July 1979, Turnov, Czech Republic) is a Czech conservative politician. Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from May 2010 to the present day. Mayor of Semily between 2006-2014, now a member of the city council. Member of Mayors for Liberec Region movement.

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Biography

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Jan Farský grew up with two older brothers in the outskirts of Semily called Nouzov. He attended high school in Semily and in 2002 graduated the Faculty of Law at the Masaryk University in Brno. After graduation he worked as a municipal lawyer in Semily, in a private law firm, as an advisor to Martin Jahn (Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy) and in Škoda Auto, as an advisor in the department for relations with public institutions.

Municipal and regional politics

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Jan Farsky Choice for Semily won the municipal elections in 2006. He became a mayor of the town. In 2008 he co-founded a political movement Mayors for Liberec Region. Jan Farsky was elected to be a member of the Liberec Region Council in 2008. Since 2008 to 2009 he held a position of a chairman of the movement which he left in 2009 to be a vice-chairman. In the municipal elections of 2010, Choice for Semily made the best election results in the history of Semily.

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In the municipal elections in 2014, Jan Farsky became the city councilor. Before the elections he announced no desire to remain at the position of mayor.

Parliamentary politics

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In the elections of 2010 Jan Farský became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, even though he was on the last place of the ballot. Jan Farsky received 3,425 preferential votes which ensured him a seat in the Parliament.

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In the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2013, Jan Farský stood as a leader of TOP 09 and STAN in the Liberec Region. He received nearly 16% of preference votes cast for his political party. From December 2013 he held the position of Deputy Vice-Chairman of Constitutional Law Committee. He was one of seven members elected for the Czech Republic to the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO since 2010.

Jan Farský´s main topics are transparency in public sector and its expenditures, anti-corruption legislation, public contracts and their procurement rules, open data.

Public contracts registry

In June 2012 Jan Farský presented a draft law on the contracts registry. The aim was to make every public expenditure easily accessible to public, with the exception of reasoned cases, similar to the policy being used in Slovakia since 2011. The contracts concluded by public institutions should be available on the Internet. The bill was finally accepted on 24 November 2015.

Mayors to mayors platform

In 2014 Jan Farský founded Mayors to mayors platform where it is possible for municipal politicians from the whole political spectre to share their knowledge and experiences with others who are most likely to encounter the same obstacles and problems. Topics often vary (architecture, cultural heritage, transparency, innovation in municipal management) but the platform has already found its audience.

Public life

  • In February 2013 Jan Farský became board member of the international non-profit organization Aspen Institute Prague, which started its activities in the Czech Republic in July 2012.
  • Shortly after the establishment of the Forum Karel Schwarzenberg in September 2013 he became a member of its board of directors. One of the aims of this Forum is organizing lectures and seminars on various social and political issues.
  • In October 2014 he was voted one of the hundred best innovators of Central and Eastern Europe. He was selected among 14 other Czech personalities (Vladimir Koren – mayor of Říčany, Karel Janeček – mathematician and entrepreneur, Jiří Mádl – actor and director). This list was co-created by The Financial Times, he International Visegrad Fund, Google and a Polish magazine Res Publica.
  • Jan Farský was awarded Personality of the Year 2014 in selection made by Eric Best´s Final Word for Jan Farský´s anti-corruption efforts.

    • Personal life

    Since his childhood, Jan Farský has been an active member of the Scout movement and in 2013 was elected the head of the Scout group in Semily.

    References

    Jan Farský Wikipedia
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