Ondřej Knotek

Ondřej Knotek was born in Sušice.^[4]

Prior to being a member of the European Parliament, Knotek worked as a quality manager in an engineering company in Tachov.^[5] He also served as a member of the supervisory board of the Mariánské Lázně Hospital between 2015 and 2016.^[6]

In 2014 Czech municipal elections, Knotek was elected as a representative of the city of Mariánské Lázně from the position of the leader of the pirate candidate.^[7] He went on to become a city councilor,^[8] but left Czech Pirate Party in June 2015 due to a "value split" and joined the ANO 2011 movement a few months later.^[9] Knotek resigned as a city councilor in March 2016.^[10] In the 2018 Czech Senate election, he failed to defend the mandate of the city representative as a member of ANO 2011.^[11]

During the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek finished fifth place as an MEP for the ANO 2011 movement.^[12][13] In 2020 Czech regional elections, he ran for the Representative Office of the Karlovy Vary region from the 38th place, but was not elected.^[14] In the 2022 Czech municipal elections, he did not ran for the Mariánské Lázně council from the last 21st place of the candidate list.^[15]

During the 2024 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic, Knotek defended the MEP mandate as a member of the ANO movement in the third place of the candidates.^[16] The movement won the election and he defended his mandate with 8,565 preferential votes.^[17]