Ondřej Kolář (politician)

Ondřej Kolář (born 13 March 1984) is a Czech politician and lawyer who has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2024, representing TOP 09.

[citation needed] In April 2017, Kolář received media attention after Prague City Hall paid 50,000 CZK for his interview in the men's magazine Playboy.

[5] On 13 May 2017, Kolář attended the unveiling of the foundation stone of the future monument to Maria Theresa in Hradčany, commissioned by Prague 6 at a cost of almost 4,000,000 CZK.

"[8] Kolář launched the initiative to add an information board to the monument to Soviet Marshal Konev in Prague 6, which explained his merits in liberating a large part of Bohemia from the Nazi occupation, but also noted his contribution to the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and his alleged patronage of the intelligence survey for the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

[9] According to the Russian Embassy, Konev did not take part in the invasion in 1968 and had already left commanding positions in the Soviet armed forces due to his age.

[17] In the 2024 European Parliament election, Kolář ran as a member of TOP 09 as the sixth place candidate on the Spolu coalition list.

[25] Kolář tried to legally force opposition representative Jiří Hoskovec to delete a Facebook comment accusing him of taking lucrative city properties to Cyprus through the company SNEO.