Helena Válková (born 7 January 1951)[1] is a Czech politician, university professor, and lawyer, specialising in criminal law and criminology.
On 10 February 2015, Andrej Babiš, the leader of ANO 2011, announced that Válková will be replaced in the function by the lawyer Robert Pelikán.
In the 1970s, while working in the Criminological Research Institute, she wrote an article "Některé poznatky z výzkumu ochranného dohledu v souvislosti s prokurátorským dozorem" ("Some findings from protective supervision research in the context of prosecution") together with the former procurator Josef Urválek, who was responsible for securing the death sentences during the show trials in the early 1950s.
[5] In the 2013 Czech legislative election, she stood successfully for parliament for the ANO 2011 movement of Andrej Babiš, as their number two candidate for the Prague regional list.
[9] In March 2014, in an interview with the website Echo24, she was asked for her opinion on the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia following World War II, and replied, "The worst.
[10] At the end of May 2014, Válková became involved in a dispute with her deputy minister Hana Marvanová, caused by disagreements over reductions in lawyers' fees and the appointment of some judicial officials.
Responding to some articles commenting on her failure in managing the ministry, Válková said "I have begun to feel disgusted with the situation developing around me."
[15] In January 2020 the news website Info.cz republished and discussed an article from 1979 authored by Válková together with the communist prosecutor Josef Urválek,[16] accusing her of defending laws used against dissidents during the normalisation era.