Tomáš Singer (
Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ sɪnɡɛr]; born 8 April 1969) is a Czechoslovak politician serving as the State President of Bohemia since 2010 and as the leader of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party (ČSDSD) in Bohemia since 2008. Singer is generally associated with social liberal, Third Way views and is considered a member of the right-wing of the Social Democratic Party.
Singer affiliated to the Social Democratic Party in 1987, following in the example of his father, a party member and Kladno's local OSČ-DGB union boss. He would quickly become active in local politics in Prague, as a member of the Social Democratic Youth. Singer has been a member of the Bohemian Assembly since the election of 1996 for the constituency of Prague Periphery (
Praha-venkov).
An economist by training, Singer served as the party's spokesperson in the Assembly's Welfare committee from 1997 until his nomination as State Councillor for Welfare and Public Health in 1999. Singer would serve in that post until 2002, under State Presidents Lubomir Šedivý (1999-2001) and Alena Němcová (2001-02). Following the 2002 election, Singer was appointed State Councillor in the second Němcová government (2002-06).
After Alena Němcová's resignation as party leader in 2008, Singer was elected by the 26th Congress, becoming the unofficial leader of the opposition. Following the 2010 elections, Singer replaced Josef Kořán as Land President after forming a six-party coalition government together with the National Socialists, the German Social Democrats, the Czechoslovak and German people's parties and the Greens. Singer was re-elected in 2014 and 2018, renewing the centre-left coalition government.
Singer is considered a popular politician, often receiving high approval ratings from voters from opposition parties, like the Republican Party (61%). According to a 2017 poll conducted by Lidové noviny, Singer is the second-most popular Social Democratic politician in Czechoslovakia and four-most popular overall.
Surviving Czechoslovakia
Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia
Slovakia and Ruthenia