Lubomír Zaorálek
Lubomír Zaorálek is a Czech politician who has been Minister of Culture since August 2019. Zaorálek previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka from 2014 to 2017. He has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies since 1996 and unsuccessfully ran for the premiership in the 2017 election but his Social Democratic Party received only 7% of the vote.Early life
He was born on 6 September 1956 in Ostrava, and graduated from Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno in 1982. He worked as a dramaturge at Czechoslovak Television in Ostrava.During the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 he participated in Civic Forum.
Zaorálek was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1996 as a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party, becoming the party's vice chairman in 2009. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2017 in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.
