Jan Farský

Jan Farský (born 11 July 1979) is a Czech politician who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2010. Farský was leader of Mayors for Liberec Region from its foundation in 2008 until 2009. He also served as Mayor of Semily from 2006 to 2014.

Jan Farský

MP
Leader of Mayors for Liberec Region
In office
3 June 2008 – 14 November 2009
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMartin Půta
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
29 May 2010
Personal details
Born (1979-07-11) 11 July 1979
Turnov, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political partySTAN, SLK
Children4
Alma materMasaryk University

Early life and career

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

Municipal and regional politics

Farsky won the municipal elections in 2006 to become the mayor of Semily. In 2008 he co-founded the Mayors for Liberec Region political movement, and was elected to the Liberec Regional Council. From 2008 to 2009 he was chairman of the movement, before becoming vice-chairman in 2009. His political grouping Choice for Semily was successful in the Semily municipal elections of 2010.

Before the municipal elections in 2014 Farsky announced his intention to step down as mayor, and after the elections became a city councillor.

Chamber of Deputies

In the legislative elections of 2010 Farský was elected to the national Chamber of Deputies, despite being placed last on the ballot. Farsky received 3,425 preferential votes to qualify for a seat in the Parliament.

In the 2013 legislative election, Farský stood as the leader of TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents (STAN) in the Liberec Region.[1] He received nearly 16% of preference votes cast for his political party. From December 2013 he was Deputy Vice-Chairman of the Constitutional Law Committee. He was one of seven members elected for the Czech Republic to the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO in 2010.

Farský's main areas of policy interest are transparency in the public sector and public spending, anti-corruption legislation, public contracts and procurement rules, and open data. In June 2012 Jan Farský introduced a draft law on the contracts registry,[2] with the aim of making data on public expenditure easily accessible online to the public, apart from in exceptional cases, similar to the policy introduced in Slovakia in 2011. The bill was passed into law on 24 November 2015.

Other activities

In February 2013 Jan Farský became a board member of the international non-profit organization Aspen Institute Prague, founded in the Czech Republic in July 2012.[3] Farsky also joined the board of directors of the Karel Schwarzenberg Forum shortly after it was formed in September 2013.

In 2014 Jan Farský founded the Mayors to Mayors platform, to allow municipal politicians to share their knowledge and experiences with others likely to encounter similar obstacles and problems. Topics discussed by the participating politicians include architecture, cultural heritage, transparency, and innovation in municipal management.[4]

In October 2014 Farsky was one of 14 Czechs included in a list of the 100 best innovators in Central and Eastern Europe, published by The Financial Times, the International Visegrad Fund, Google and Polish Res Publica magazine.[5] He was also named Personality of the Year for 2014 by Erik Best's Final Word in recognition of his anti-corruption efforts.[6]

References
  1. Josef Kopecký. "TOP 09 schválila lídry do voleb. S Kalouskem ve středních Čechách - iDNES.cz". Zpravy.idnes.cz. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  2. "Registr smluv - Smlouvy - Otevřená data - Portál veřejné správy". Portal.gov.cz. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  3. "Board of Directors | Aspen Institute Prague". Aspeninstitute.cz. Archived from the original on 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  4. Tomáš Sábl. "Starostové starostům". Starostovestarostum.cz. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  5. "Jan Farský". Ne100.org. Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  6. Erik Best (2014-12-30). "Osobnost roku 2014". FSFinalWord.cz. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
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