In the 2017 legislative elections, Farsky was the national leader of STAN and their lead candidate in Prague, as STAN entered the Chamber of Deputies for the first time running on its own. In 2020, the Chamber of Deputies passed a proposal by Farsky to grant five extra days of paid vacation to camp leaders and coaches of youth sports teams. He has also repeatedly proposed legislation to move certain state agencies from Prague to other regions. He was also involved in gambling taxation and the strengthening of municipal powers to restrict slot machine gambling. The bill was passed into law on 24 November 2015. In June 2012 Jan Farský introduced a draft law on the contracts registry, intending to make data on public expenditure easily accessible online to the public, apart from in exceptional cases, similar to the policy introduced in Slovakia in 2011. He was also a member of the Committee for European Affairs from 2017 to 2021.įarský's main areas of policy interest are transparency in the public sector and public spending, anti-corruption legislation, public contracts, reducing the regional gap, and procurement rules. He was one of seven Czech members elected to the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO in 2010. From December 2013 he was deputy vice-chair of the Constitutional Law Committee. He received nearly 16% of preference votes cast for his list. He was reelected in 2013, running as the lead candidate on the combined list of TOP 09 and STAN in the Liberec Region. Despite being placed last place on the ballot, Farský received 3,425 preferential votes to be elected as an MP. Chamber of Deputies įarský was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in elections in 2010, on the candidate list of TOP 09. He resigned in January 2018, citing his workload. In regional elections in 2016, he was again elected to the Liberec Regional Assembly on the SLK candidate list. He resigned from this post upon his election to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010, and did not stand in the next regional elections in 2012. He stood down as vice-chair and left the party in 2017.įrom 2008, Farsky was a member of the Liberec Regional Assembly. In 2008, Farsky co-founded the Mayors for the Liberec Region (SLK) party, for which he was also the chair from 2008 to 2009, and vice-chair from November 2009. At the beginning of April 2019, following the death of his party colleague Klára Valentová, Farský succeeded her as a municipal representative. He received the 7th largest number of preference votes of the 168 candidates running, but was not elected, and ended up as a first alternate.
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In the 2018 municipal elections he ran as a member of STAN, but on the Volba pro Semily candidate list for the municipal council. Before municipal elections in 2014, he announced that he would not seek reelection as mayor anymore, and in March 2015 he again became a municipal councillor in the town. Four years later he became the Mayor of Semily, as the leader of a local political movement, Volba pro Semily ("Choice for Semily"). Political career Municipal politics įarský entered politics in 2002, when he was elected onto the municipal council in Semily. He subsequently started working for Škoda Auto, as an adviser in the department for relations with public institutions. After a year he transferred to a private law office to work as a trainee solicitor, before becoming an adviser to Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy Martin Jahn.
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He received secondary education at the Ivan Olbracht Gymnazium in Semily, and graduated from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno with a master's degree in 2002.įarský began his professional career as a municipal lawyer in Semily.
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