Karolína Peake

Karolína Peake
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Minister of Defence
In office 12 December 2012 – 20 December 2012
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas
Preceded by	Alexandr Vondra
Succeeded by	Petr Nečas
Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
In office 1 July 2011 – 10 July 2013
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas
Preceded by	Radek John
Personal details
Born	(1975-10-10) 10 October 1975 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Civic Democratic Party (1997–98) Public Affairs (2007–12) LIDEM (2012–present)
Spouse(s)	Charles Peake
Children	Two
Alma mater	Charles University
Profession	Lawyer

Karolína Peake (born 10 October 1975), née Karolína Kvačková, is a Czech politician. She served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and was the first woman to hold this position. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2010 election, representing Public Affairs (VV), but left in April 2012 with seven other MPs. The party she founded after breaking away from VV took the name "LIDEM", which means "for the people" in Czech, and is also based on the first letters of "Liberal Democrats". She was appointed Minister of Defense in December 2012, but was dismissed by Prime Minister Petr Nečas eight days later, due to criticism of her rapid replacement of ministry deputies.

She was a member of Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 1998, during her studies at university. In 1999 she graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Charles University and married Charles Peake, an Australian manager of Czech-Chinese origin. After this, she worked as trainee lawyer in the Czech branch of Baker & McKenzie. She gave birth to her sons Sebastian, and Theodor, with whom she took five years parental leave. Thereafter, she began to be involved in local politics, including campaigns to save a local park and to extend local children's playgrounds. In 2006, she was elected to the town council of Prague 1 as independent for Public Affairs

See also

• Petr Nečas's Cabinet