Jana Bobošíková

Jana Bobošíková (born 29 August 1964) is a Czech politician. In the 2004 European Parliament election she was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the Independents and remained unaffiliated in the European Parliament. In the 2008 and 2013 presidential elections she unsuccessfully ran for the office as President of the Czech Republic. She founded Politika 21 in 2006 and Sovereignty – Jana Bobošíková Bloc in 2009.

Early life
She was a member of the Socialist Union of Youth. In 2012, Czech media noticed that in a TV news report from June 1986, she passed a bouquet of roses to President Gustáv Husák, the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. She later told Czech Television that it had been "an honor".

In 1987 she graduated with a master's degree in economics.

Career
From 1989, Bobošíková presented TV programmes on politics and economics, spending most of her television career at Česká Televize (ČT). 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 ČT and moved to TV Nova, where she worked until 2004.

She had already been an adviser to the chair of the Chamber of Deputies from 1999, and continued her move into politics in 2004 by standing for the European Parliament, elected on the Independents 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, she began cooperating with the Party of Common Sense. She led this electoral alliance in the 2009 European election under the name 'Sovereignty'; the list came fifth, winning 4.3% of the vote, just short of the 5% threshold for representation. In 2011, she established her own party, Sovereignty – Jana Bobošíková Bloc.

Bobošíková ran in the Czech presidential election in 2008 and 2013. In the first round of the 2013 election, she placed 9th with 2.39% (123,171 votes), and did not qualify for the second round.