
Karin Podivinská
Karin Podivinská (born 1966 in Šaľa, then Czechoslovakia) is a Czech politician and businesswoman with an engineering degree in horticulture.
- Born
- 1966 (60 years), Šaľa
- Party
- Brnoklidem
- Office
- Member of the municipal council of Brno 2014–
District representative in Czechia 2014– - Website
- karinpodivinska.cz
3%Probability · Mayor of Brno 2026
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She has been a Brno city councillor since 2014 and deputy mayor of Brno since October 2022, and deputy chair of the Brnoklidem movement since April 2026. She is named as a candidate for Mayor of Brno in the 2026 Czech municipal elections.
Career
Podivinská graduated in horticulture engineering from Mendel University in Brno in 1989. She was mayor of the Brno district of Královo Pole from 2014 to 2022 and has sat on the Brno city council since 2014, serving as a deputy mayor of the city since October 2022. She was a member of ANO 2011 from 2014 until December 2025, when she was excluded from the party together with nine other Brno councillors after refusing to end the city coalition with the ODS, which the party leadership demanded. She joined Brnoklidem in March 2026 and became its deputy chair in April 2026. She stood unsuccessfully in the 2016 regional election and in the Senate elections of 2024 and January 2025.
- Member of the municipal council of Brno 2014–
- District representative in Czechia 2014–
- Mayor of a city district in the Czech Republic 2014–2022
Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Czech Wikipedia
Photo: Martin Strachoň, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
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Mayor of Brno 2026
| Outcome | Left – Right | Age | Probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre | 94% | ||
| 60 | 3% | ||
| 35 | 2% | ||
| Centre-right | 45 | 2% | |
| Right | 2% | ||
| 62 | 2% | ||
| Right | 56 | 1% | |
| 58 | 1% | ||
| 1% | |||
| 50 | <1% | ||
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