Ladislav Adamec

(b. Bohemia, 10 Sept. 1927) Czech; Czechoslovak Prime Minister 1988 – 9 Adamec made a career within the party apparatus of the Czech Republic, where he gained the reputation of a technocrat, critical of economic inefficiency. He prospered through the support of the federal premier, Lubomír Štrougal. In March 1987 he entered the Presidium and became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. In October 1988 he replaced Štrougal as federal premier. Adamec paid lip-service to the language of economic reform, but never did more than tinker with the existing system. In February 1989 he visited Moscow where he was pressed to take a more liberal course. When the "Velvet Revolution" broke out in Prague in November 1989, Adamec disassociated himself from the rest of the Communist Party leadership and negotiated with the opposition. On 26 November he joined Havel and Dubček to address a vast crowd in Prague's Wenceslas Square. On 3 December he made a last-ditch attempt to salvage the power of the Communist Party by proposing a government headed by himself and in which the Communists would hold sixteen out of twenty-one posts. The opposition rejected this scheme. On 7 December 1989 Adamec resigned as Czechoslovak premier and was succeeded by Marián Čalfa. In March 1990 Adamec took over the newly created post of chairman of the (Communist) Party.

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Ladislav Adamec
Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
In office 12 October 1988 – 10 December 1989
Preceded by	Lubomír Štrougal
Succeeded by	Marián Čalfa
Born	September 10, 1926(1926-09-10) Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czechoslovakia
Died	April 14, 2007 (aged 80) Prague, Czech Republic

Ladislav Adamec (September 10, 1926 in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm - April 14, 2007 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak communist political figure. In October 1988, Lubomír Štrougal retired from being the Prime Minister and was replaced by Ladislav Adamec. He was the Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from October 12, 1988 to December 7, 1989. He had previously been the Prime Minister of the Czech Socialist Republic from 1987 to 1988.

Velvet Revolution

The Velvet Revolution lasted from November 17 to December 29, 1989. During the Velvet Revolution student protesters took to the streets of Prague in what became an overthrow of the government.

Large demonstrations that occurred between November 25 and 26, and a public strike on November 27, pushed the communist regime into holding a conference with the Civic Forum. The Forum demanded that Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec form a new government—that would include existing political parties and Civic Forum.

The federal government under Ladislav Adamec had been in contact with different leaders since November 21, and on Sunday, November 26, Adamec even addressed the crowds on Letná.

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