Jana Bobošíková member of political party Czech Sovereignty
Career
From 1989, Bobošíková presented TV programmes on politics and economics, spending most of her television career at Ceska Televize (CT). She was appointed Head of News in late 2000, and played a significant role in the Czech TV crisis of January 2001, following which she resigned from CT and moved to TV Nova, where she worked until 2004.
She had already acted as Adviser to the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 1999, and in 2004 continued her move into politics by standing for the European Parliament, elected on Vladimír Železný's Independent Democrats ticket. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) until 2009. She sat on the Committee on Regional Development, was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
In 2009, after finishing her term as an MEP, she established her own party, Sovereignty. Bobošíková presented her candidacy in 2008 and 2013, for the President of the Czech Republic. In the 1st round of the 2013 election, she placed 9th with 2.39% (123,171 votes), and did not qualify for the second round.
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