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Kateřina Jacques ((:ˈkatɛr̝ɪna ˈʒak)) (born ) is a Czech Green Party politician. She was elected to the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the June 2006 election, representing the Prague electoral district. Before the election she was director of the human rights section of the prime minister's office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership )〕 She gained media attention when she was assaulted by a policeman while protesting against a neo-Nazi rally on May 1, 2006. == Biography == Kateřina Jacques was born Kateřina Pajerová in the central Bohemian town of Mělník. Her father is Ota Pajer, a photographer and brother of the documentary photographer Alan Pajer; her older sister is Monika MacDonagh-Pajerová, a diplomat and political activist. After finishing secondary school in 1990, she worked as an au pair in Germany while studying at the Free University of Berlin. She met her French husband Christian Jacques there, and they lived together for a year (1997–1998) in Strasbourg, where she studied. She used the surname Jacques-Pajerová for a time, but later adopted his family name Jacques without the suffix -ová, which is customary in the Czech language for female surnames, when this was allowed by a change in the Czech registry law. They have two children, Nina (born 1994) and Sebastian Maxmilian (born 1995). From 1994 to 2002 she studied political science and German translation at Charles University in Prague, working as a translator and interpreter during her studies.〔 Her master's thesis ''Comparison of Palacký's interpretation of selected themes in Czech and German edition of his »Czech History«'' (''Srovnání Palackého výkladů vybraných témat v českém a německém vydání jeho »Českých dějin«'') won the university's Bolzano Prize. After graduation she worked in the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2006 she gained a professional doctorate in political science. Since 2003 she has worked in the Czech government's office. In 2005 she was appointed cabinet director of deputy prime minister Pavel Němec. A year later she became director of the office for human rights and equal opportunities. In April 2005 at a seminar about national minorities Jacques defended a government promotional campaign against racism, which was criticised for advocating integration of the Romani people.〔(BBC article in Czech )〕 Kateřina Jacques joined the Green Party in spring 2005 and was elected to the central revision committee at their congress in August 2005. In the primary election in January 2006 she received the second eligible place on the Green ticket, just after chairman Martin Bursík. The Green Party places emphasis on representation of women, and the young and photogenic Jacques was featured in Prague election campaign posters 〔(Posters of GP )〕 and was accompanied by Bursík on billboards 〔(Billboard of GP )〕 of the Green Party. She received 6,926 preferential votes (11.46% of the total for the Green Party), 185 more than Bursík, so she overtook him in the order for assigning mandates. In 2015 she married Bursík; their daughter was born in 2009.〔http://zpravy.idnes.cz/martin-bursik-a-katerina-jacques-se-vzali-f1z-/domaci.aspx?c=A150620_201801_domaci_kha〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kateřina Jacques」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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