Vladimír Buřt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vladimír Buřt

Czech local politician

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1964

Place of Birth: Holtschitz, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Profession: politician

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Vladimír Buřt

  • Vladimír Burt (March 3, 1964, Albrechtice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech politician and environmentalist, and mayor of the town of Horní Jiretín. He is one of the most prominent advocates of the brown coal mining limits in North Bohemia as Horní Jiretín is threatened with demolition by mining operations at the nearby Czechoslovak Army Mine.
  • He has been a member of the Horní Jiretín council since 1998, but also runs a small construction business specialising in the reconstruction of historic buildings. He was the recipient of the 2009 Josef Vavroušek Prize for his persistent defence of local communities against the private interests of mining companies.
  • Burt was also awarded the Ivan Dejmal Prize in 2011 for an outstanding positive achievement associated with the landscape by the Society for Landscape.Burt is one of the main protagonists in the 2005 documentary, “God’s Stone Quarry” (Czech: “Kamenolom Boží”), by director Bretislav Rychlík about the life of people living in the vicinity of the lunarscape creating by brown coal mining in North Bohemia.
  • The documentary concludes with Burt's assessment of what 'demons' the inhabitants of North Bohemian coal mining areas are forced to live with, which in his view is 'materialism'.
  • "Materialism led to the rapid construction of uniform paneláky and environmental destruction, and in the post-communist period, it has led to envy.
  • Burt warns that it threatens to destroy more and that it will eventually result in destruction and the end of humanity."He also briefly appears in another documentary about the lives of two women from opposing sides of the debate about coal mining in North Bohemia, called “Coal in the Soul” (Czech “Ženy SHR”), one of whom is his partner, Hana Krejcová, who is the custodian of Jezerí Chateau situated on the slopes of the Ore Mountains overlooking the Czechoslovak Army Mine and which is also threatened by encroaching mining operations. In the 2012 regional elections, Burt won a seat on the Ústí regional council as a member of the Green Party (Czech Republic) on the Hnutí PRO kraj ticket – a coalition of the Green Party, the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (Czech: Krestanská a demokratická unie – Ceskoslovenská strana lidová, KDU–CSL) and the Movement of Independents’ Harmonious Development of Communities and Towns (Czech: Hnutí nezávislých za harmonický rozvoj obcí or HNHRM).
  • Hnutí PRO kraj won 8.1% of the vote in the Ústí region while Burt himself received a total of 1462 votes, which placed him third out of the six candidates who were elected on the PRO kraj ticket.Burt was listed no.15 on the Ústí region's Green Party ticket for the 2013 parliamentary elections, while Hana Krejcová appeared at no.8 on the same ticket.
  • The Green Party won 3.19% of the national vote in the elections, i.e.
  • not enough to surpass the 5% threshold to enter parliament.
  • In the Ústí region itself, it won 2.68% of the vote.
  • In Horní Jiretín, the Green Party won 15.95% of the votes cast, which was the third best party performance behind ANO 2011 and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.In the October 2014 municipal elections, Burt was the highest polling candidate in Horní Jiretín with 454 votes.
  • He stood on the Association of Green Parties and Independent Candidates ticket [Czech: Sdružení Strany zelených a nezávislých kandidátu], which returned four representatives to the town council with 27.5% of the total vote.
  • As a result, he became mayor of the town.

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