Petr Hlaváček

He has been Deputy Mayor of Prague for territorial and strategic development since 2023, after serving as first deputy mayor from 2018. He leads STAN in Prague and is the Mayors and Independents candidate for Mayor of Prague in the October 2026 municipal election.

Career

Czech Wikipedia says Hlaváček graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1985 and taught there from 1990 to 2010, then served as vice dean for development from 2010 to 2015. He directed the Institute for Planning and Development of Prague from 2015 until September 2016, when he was removed, and later founded the architecture firm Architekti Headhand. He joined the city council in 2018, elected on a TOP 09 ticket as a non-party member, and became first deputy mayor in November 2018. Since February 2023 he has been deputy mayor for territorial and strategic development, and he moved to STAN from 2022. He led its list in the 2022 election, when it won 7.76 percent, and STAN's Prague assembly chose him as its mayoral candidate on 21 March 2026 with 141 of about 190 votes.

Positions

In an interview with the business daily E15 he said he wants direct election of mayors and of the Prague mayor. He backs the Metropolitan Plan, which he says enables projects such as the City Ring and new districts at Bubny and Žižkov. He says the Prague Development Company should build affordable rental housing, with private developers leading construction and state tax incentives for rental investment. He promotes the Energocentrum project, which uses heat pumps on wastewater, and plans a metro line E between Smíchov and Modřany. He supports flexible blue parking zones for residents during the day and rules out a coalition with ANO. At STAN's assembly he said Prague does not deserve stagnation.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Czech Wikipedia · CNN Prima News · E15 · Wikipedia

Photo: Vojtěch Havlík/Magistrát hl. m. Prahy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)