Czech politician, president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023
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The Czech Republic's first directly elected president, a figure who revived the country's Social Democratic Party, then spent a decade in office drawing fire for cozy ties to Russia and China—until the 2022 invasion flipped the script.
Born in Kolín in 1944, Zeman joined the Communist Party in 1968 but was expelled two years later for opposing the Warsaw Pact invasion. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he rebuilt the Czech Social Democratic Party into a major force and became prime minister in 1998 through a controversial pact with rival Václav Klaus—a deal that drew sharp criticism from President Václav Havel for undermining checks and balances. His government privatized state industries, created new administrative regions, and brought the Czech Republic into NATO in 1999; Zeman cast the final vote authorizing the bombin…
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