Katerina Demetrashvili

Katerina Demetrashvili
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office
October 4, 2025
ConstituencyPrague
Personal details
Born (2003-04-05) April 5, 2003
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
PartyCzech Pirate Party (2024–)
Alma materCharles University

Katerina Demetrashvili (born April 5, 2003)[1] is a Czech politician.[2] A member of the Czech Pirate Party, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2025 Czech parliamentary election.[3]

Biography

Demetrashvili was born in Texas to a Georgian family,[4] and has lived in the Czech Republic since she was one year old. Her father serves as a sniper in the Georgian Legion in the Russo-Ukrainian war.[5] She attended Charles University after graduating from the Music High School in Prague where she led the school parliament.[6] Demetrashvili is a law student and vice-chairwoman of Young Pirates. She is the youngest Pirate elected in the 2025 election.[5]

Controversies

In October 2025, Demetrashvili received media attention after the online publication of Twitter posts from 2020 and 2021, which included references to drug use and pornography.[7] She described the tweets as adolescent humor, and said she had never taken the drugs mentioned.[8]

In a television interview, Demetrashvili criticized Marek Benda for his 25 years of experience as a member of Chamber of Deputies,[9] saying "Who can political lizard Marek Benda possibly represent when he is so inexperienced and has been sitting in the Chamber of Deputies since he was 21?"[10] A spokesperson for the Civic Democratic Party responded that she should show "humility" given her young age at the time of her election. In the same interview, Demetrashvili described the Russian-Ukrainian war as a means of economic enrichment for the Czech Republic. Her position was criticized by former PM Jiří Paroubek and some foreign journalists.[11][12]

Personal life

In April 2026, when Demetrashvili was 23 years old, it was reported that Demetrashvili was dating the 50-year-old former chief of the Military Police Otakar Foltýn.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Katerina Demetrashvili" (in Czech). Chamber of Deputies. Retrieved October 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Katerina Demetrashvili". Czech Pirate Party (in Czech). Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  3. ↑ Pitthardová, Veronika (October 4, 2025). "Nejmladší pirátka míří do Sněmovny. Co chce prosadit kromě duševního zdraví?". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Mafra. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ "პირველი ქართველი ქალი ჩეხეთის პარლამენტში - ვინ არის 22 წლის კატერინა დემეტრაშვილი, რომლის მამაც უკრაინაში სნაიპერია: ტრიუმფი არჩევნებში და ოჯახის ისტორია" (in Georgian). MCM. October 10, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Povolná, Tereza (October 1, 2025). "Táta je sniper na Ukrajině, o mé kandidatuře neví, říká pirátka Demetrashvili". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Lidé | Mladé Pirátstvo". Czech Pirate Party (in Czech). Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  7. ↑ Kučera, Vladimir (October 18, 2025). "Pirátskou poslankyni Demetrashvili lustrují na síti kvůli starým příspěvkům o drogách a sexu". Domácí Politika (in Czech). Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  8. ↑ Kučera, Matěj (October 17, 2025). "Demetrashvili: Nepřekvapuje mě, že Motoristé kopou". Bold News (in Czech). AP Production News. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Interview ČT24 20. října". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. October 20, 2025. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  10. ↑ Hrdlička, Jan (October 23, 2025). "Pozdvižení kolem mladé pirátské poslankyně Demetrashvili: ještěr Benda, staré tweety i podpora". Echo24.cz (in Czech). Echo Media. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Jiří Paroubek: Poslankyně Pirátů - Na válce vyděláváme a je pro nás obohacením...". Parlamentní listy (in Czech). Naše Média. October 25, 2025. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  12. ↑ Sedlák, Dušan (October 27, 2025). "Spadla z oblakov. Ne Majka, ale Katia". iportal24.cz (in Slovak). Por-Ta-News. Retrieved October 30, 2025.
  13. ↑ Češner, Adam (April 16, 2026). "Mladá Pirátka Demetrashvili potvrdila vztah s Foltýnem. Dělí je 27 let" [Young Pirate Demetrashvili Confirms Relationship with Foltýn. They Are 27 Years Apart] (in Czech). TV Nova. Retrieved June 5, 2026.
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