Olga Richterová | |
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Prague 10 Council member | |
In office 11 October 2014 – 11 October 2018 | |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 21 October 2017 | |
Vice-chairwoman of the Czech Pirate Party | |
In office 6 January 2018 – 8 January 2022 | |
Deputy President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 10 November 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia | 21 January 1985
Nationality | Czech |
Political party | Czech Pirate Party |
Alma mater | Charles University |
Olga Richterová (born 21 January 1985) [1] is a Czech linguist and politician. She was the vice-chairwoman of the Czech Pirate Party from January 2018 to January 2022 and is a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since the 2017 legislative election. [2] Richterová was re-elected in the October 2021 Czech legislative election on a joint list of the Pirates and Mayors electoral alliance and became a vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.
Richterová was born on 21 January 1985 in České Budějovice in southern Bohemia and grew up in Choltice in the Pardubice Region. [3] She studied linguistics, English and German translation at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. [4] Richterová joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2014 and has been a council member of Prague 10 district in 2014 to 2018 prior to being elected Deputy of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the 2017 legislative election. [3] Her political agenda has been housing legislation, social policy and urban planning policy. [5] She serves as the vice-chairwoman of the parliamentary Committee on Social Policy from 19 December 2017. [2]
She was elected vice-chairwoman of the party in January 2018. [4] In January 2020, she was re-elected as party vice-chairwoman. [6] Richterová led the Pirates and Mayors electoral alliance in the Prague region in the October 2021 Czech legislative election [7] and was re-elected. Subsequently, she became a vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies. [8]
Richterová is a member of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, [9] is married and has two children.