Přemysl Sobotka

Přemysl Sobotka (born 1944) is a Czech medical doctor and politician. He was born in Mladá Boleslav and grew up in Liberec, where his father taught school. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in 1968, started in the surgical department of the Liberec Hospital and after two years moved to its X-ray department. Between 1991 and 1996 he was senior consultant and head of the hospital's radiology department. His political career began in the Velvet Revolution of 1989, and he sat in the Czech Senate for the Liberec constituency from 1996, serving as its president from 2004 to 2010. He stood in the 2013 presidential election and placed eighth in the first round. His wife Radmila worked as a nurse.