Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Vladimír Špidla is the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. His Social Democratic Party has governed in a coalition with the Christian Democrats and Freedom Union since June 2002. He is strongly in favour of European Union membership. He had been a historian before entering politics, rising to leader of the SDP in 2001. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.