Kateřina Konečná

Member of the European Parliament

In 2004, shortly after the Czech Republic joined the EU and before the subsequent European Parliament elections, Konečná became a "temporary MEP" before the elected Czech MEPs took up their mandate. From 2004 to 2014, she was also included in the Czech delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In the 2014 European Parliament elections, Konečná headed the KSČM list and was elected with 28,154 preferential votes. She was re-elected to the parliament in May 2019, and again in June 2024 as lead candidate for the Stačilo! alliance.

Konečná is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. She is also a substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, as well as the Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.

Views on Russia Konečná argues that Russia is not a dangerous state and that Putin only wants to bring peace to Europe, also stating that Putin was "defending his country" with the invasion of Ukraine, the "collective west" started the war, and that Russia is victim of the war. She has also called for the Czech Republic to withdraw from NATO.

Azerbaijani relations Since 2014, Konečná has been a member of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee.

Konečná is mentioned in the Transparency International report revealing the details of the Azerbaijan Laundromat money-laundering scandal. The report noted that she took a pro-Azerbaijan approach in the European Parliament when MEPs criticised Azerbaijan's human rights record in a joint motion for a resolution, titled "Persecution of Human Rights defenders in Azerbaijan".

In 2013, when Konečná was a member of the Czech Republic-Azerbaijan friendship group, she was among the supporters of the resolution "on the 21st anniversary of the Azerbaijan massacre". The resolution was widely criticised on the grounds that it was "biased and did not contribute to the fair relations of the Czech Republic with the region of the South Caucasus". As a member of PACE, Konečná voted against the motion of resolution on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, which was not adopted.

Iran relations Since 2022, Konečná is reported to have met with representatives of the Iranian government, for undisclosed reasons.

Personal life Konečná married businessman Zdenek Trefil on 17 August 2008. She gave birth to a son named Šimon on 22 October 2015.

In October 2025, Konečná disclosed in an interview for Rytmus života that she had been diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis twenty years ago.