Jiří Zimola

Jiří Zimola
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 26 October 2013 – 31 March 2014
Governor of South Bohemian region
In office 29 November 2008 – 27 April 2017
Preceded by	Jan Zahradník
Succeeded by	Ivana Stráská
Mayor of Nová Bystřice
In office 1998–2008
Preceded by	Bohumil Chlanda
Succeeded by	Vladimír Bláha
Personal details
Born	(1971-03-28) 28 March 1971 (age 53) Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
Political party	ČSSD (2000–2020)[1] Change 2020[2]
Children	2
Alma mater	University of South Bohemia
Website	http://www.jirizimola.cz/

Jiří Zimola (born 28 March 1971) is a Czech Social Democrat politician, who served as Governor of the South Bohemian Region from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. Zimola left the Social Democratic Party in 2020 and became leader of a new party called Change 2020.^[3]

Biography

He studied at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, working as a teacher after he finished his studies.^[4]

Political career

Zimola entered politics in 1998 and became Mayor of Nová Bystřice. He became a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party in 2000. In 2008, Zimola became Governor of the South Bohemian region and gave up his position as Mayor.^[4] He was forced to resign in 2017 due to a controversy related to his cottage at Lipno nad Vltavou.^[5][6]

He founded a political platform called Let's save ČSSD after the 2017 legislative election.^[7]

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