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Ivan David
Ivan David in 2024
Member of the European Parliament
for Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Minister of Health
In office
22 July 1998 – 9 December 1999
Prime MinisterMiloš Zeman
Preceded byZuzana Roithová
Succeeded byVladimír Špidla
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
20 June 1998 – 20 June 2002
Personal details
Born (1952-09-24) 24 September 1952 (age 72)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(now Czech Republic)
Political partySPD (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations		SOCDEM (1993–2015)
Alma materCharles University
OccupationPsychiatrist • Politician

Ivan David (born 24 September 1952) is a Czech psychiatrist, former Minister of Health and former director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Bohnice.

He graduated from Prague High School and the Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University. He then worked as a psychiatrist. From 1998 to 2002, he was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats, and from 1998 to 1999, he was Minister of Health. He is the grandson of Jindřich Šnobl (1903-1971), a former deputy managing director of ČKD-Stalingrad. Ivan David was a director of the psychiatric hospital in Bohnice until April 2008.

Ivan David is election leader of Freedom and Direct Democracy in 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic.

On 15 September 2022, he was one of 16 MEPs who voted against condemning President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua for human rights violations, in particular the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez.

References

  1. "Ředitel bohnické léčebny Ivan David skončil" (in Czech). Týden. 2008-04-29. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  2. "European Parliament condemns growing repression of Catholic Church in Nicaragua, calls for release of bishop". Catholic News Agency.
  3. "Nicaragua, in particular the arrest of the bishop Rolando Álvarez" (PDF). europarl.europa.eu.

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Preceded byZuzana Roithová Minister of Health of the Czech Republic
1998–1999 		Succeeded byBohumil Fišer
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