Václav Láska

He has represented Prague 5 in the Senate since 2014, first elected as an independent, and founded and chairs the SEN 21 movement. He is a Prague 5 councillor since 2022. He leads SEN 21's slate in the 2026 election for Prague's city council and is named in the race for Mayor of Prague.

Career

Láska was born on 4 August 1974. He served 18 years as a police officer, specialising in economic crime, and left in 2003. He has practised as a lawyer since 2004 and runs his own firm. He was a Green Party member from 2014 to 2017, then founded the SEN 21 movement in 2017. He won Senate District 21 (Prague 5) as an independent in 2014 and 2020, and was elected a Prague 5 councillor in 2022. He has written three books on legal and political topics between 2005 and 2020.

Positions

Wikipedia says Láska has campaigned on anti-corruption, animal welfare legislation and against excessive property development. In 2019 he led an effort to draft a constitutional complaint against President Miloš Zeman, which the Chamber of Deputies rejected. SEN 21 describes itself as liberal, progressive and pro-European, and Wikipedia places it at the centre to centre-left, with green politics among its themes.

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