Vit Rakusan

Vít Rakušan is a Czech pedagogue and politician who has served as the leader of the Mayors and Independents (STAN) political party since 2019 and its first vice-chairman from 2016 to 2019. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since October 2017; an elected representative of the Central Bohemia Region since 2012, and was the mayor of the City of Kolín from 2010 to 2019. From 2021 to 2025, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala