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Eva Decroix
Czech politician and serving Minister of Justice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eva Decroix (née Táborská,[1] born 26 May 1982) is a Czech businesswoman, lawyer and politician serving as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala since June 2025.[2]
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Early life
Decroix was born as Eva Táborská on 26 May 1982.[1] She runs a law firm in Jihlava and Prague and is dedicated to alternative methods of conflict resolution as a registered mediator.[3]
Political career
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In 2016 Czech regional elections, Decroix ran for the Civic Democratic Party as a representative of Vysočina Regional Representative, but was not elected.[4] She was only elected in the 2020 elections, originally being as the 12th candidate but ended in third place due to preferential votes.[5]
Decroix failed to run for the Civic Democratic Party in the 2018 Czech municipal elections for the City Council of Jihlava.[6] With citizen democrat Petr Laštovička resigned from his mandate at the beginning of 2020, she became the new city representative.[7] In the 2022 municipal elections, Decroix ran for Jihlava council from the 14th place as a candidate of ODS and KDU-ČSL coalition, but was not elected.[8]
In the 2019 European Parliament election, Decroix ran as the sixth ODS candidate, but was unsuccessful and became the third alternate.[9]
During the 2021 Czech parliamentary election, Decroix finished second place as a member of the Civic Democratic Party in the Vysočina Region.[10] In January 2022, she became a member of the Subcommittee for the Support of Democracy and Human Rights Abroad before serving as chairwoman the following year.[11]
At the 31st Civic Democratic Party congress in April 2024, Decroix was elected vice-president of the party, receiving 311 votes from 528 party delegates.[12]
On 10 June 2025, Decroix was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala.[2]
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Personal life
Decroix is married to chef Rémy Decroix with two daughters.[13]
Controversies
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Senior from the photo bank supporting pension reforms
In March 2023, she shared ODS promotional material on her Facebook account, which included a quote next to a photo of a smiling senior citizen:
I see it the same way as the Minister of Finance. Pensioners are not bad off, I am happy. I want my children and grandchildren to have pensions too. In my area, most pensioners agree with the reduction.
— Václav P.[14]
The post was intended to express support for the government amendment currently under discussion to reduce the indexation of pensions. The use of a photo of a man from a photo bank, which is commonly used in foreign campaigns, caught the public's attention. Decroix expressed disappointment that the use of the photo had distracted attention from the statement made by Mr Václav, whom she said she knew and had indeed uttered the quote.[15]
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) Summit
Co-hosted Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) Summit at the Chamber of Deputies in September 2023, which was organised by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová.[16] The Prague Summit was attended by 60 legislators from more than 20 countries. Taiwan security, Hong Kong, human rights and China's Silk Road economic initiative were discussed. Media attention was earned by the invitation of one of the participants, Ugandan politician Lucy Akello. The former MP was due to speak on China's growing influence in Africa, but in her home country she was herself behind the passage of legislation suppressing basic human rights, the so-called Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Decroix had met with Akello earlier in May, days before Uganda passed a law that broadly criminalized homosexuality, ranging from imprisonment to the death penalty. On Facebook, she shared a joint photo from the panel discussion and praised her "lovely colleague from IPAC". After the criticism, she removed the reference from the post and said she did not know about Akello's views and did not agree with them, but would not discontinue her cooperation with Akello.
Uncertainty over Master's degree and surname
Decroix came to public attention in the Czech media after she took over the Ministry of Justice from Pavel Blažek, who resigned over the bitcoin case. She initially used her Master's degree (Mgr. in Czech) in several places, including her professional CV and the Czech government website. Journalists from Deník N noticed that Decroix used the title Mgr. incorrectly.[17] After moving to France with her ex-boyfriend (now husband), she studied at two French universities, but only obtained a lower form of master's degree in the French university system. Decroix managed to complete this type of study in a record four years, even though the official programme took five years.[18]
Upon arrival, Decroix had her foreign education nostrified at Charles University so that she could subsequently study for her PhD. Journalists also noted the strange circumstances of the nostrification of her education from France when comparing her to other Czech students who studied in France during the same time period as Decroix. Decroix had not completed the final year required for a full-fledged Master 2 legal education. She later obtained this educational level (not the title of Mgr.) in a non-legal field. After the publication of the articles concerning these irregularities, the title of Mgr. disappeared from the government's official website and from the politician's professional CV.[19]
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