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Michael canov kandid t do sen tu a jan farsk poslanec ps r
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.
Contents
- Michael canov kandid t do sen tu a jan farsk poslanec ps r
- Jan farsk semily
- Biography
- Municipal and regional politics
- Parliamentary politics
- Public contracts registry
- Mayors to mayors platform
- Public life
- Personal life
- References
Jan farsk semily
Biography
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.