Miroslav Lidinský is a former Czech policeman and member of the :cs:Útvar speciálních operací Vojenské policie|Special Operations Unit of the Military Police, a retired lieutenant at the Ministry of Defence, and since August 2015 the Chairman of the political party Dawn - National Coalition.
Life
After studying at a technical college in Prague, he worked as a technologist. He later joined the CzechoslovakianBorder Guard, which was transformed into the Border Police and was subsequently incorporated into the Czech Police. He joined the Police of the Czech Republic in 1993, and first worked as a police officer in his hometown of Chlum u Třeboně. In 1996 he then moved to the operations unit in the Czech Budejovice, and spent ten years there. During that time he graduated from the :cs:Pedagogická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity|Pedagogical Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice and the Czech University of Defence. He taught at the University of Defence as an instructor of physical education for medical rescuers. He later became an instructor for diving, pyrotechnics, aerial rescue, and instructor for firearms training. In November 2006 he joined the :cs:Útvar speciálních operací Vojenské policie|Special Operations Unit of the Military Police – SOG and was trained to specially to combat terrorism domestically and abroad. In 2007 he was deployed in Afghanistan along with comrades in the SOG to handle special tasks directly alongside British coalition forces. On 28 July 2007 Lidinský was in the Helmand province and was seriously wounded when a Taliban fighter fired an anti-tank missileRPG that landed right between his legs and blew off his left ankle. In 2010 his leg had to be amputated below the knee. In the aftermath of the accident, Lidinský went looking for alternative sports. His partner introduced him to golf, in which he eventually became a successful as a disabled athlete – acting as president of the Czech Gold Association Handicapped and became a member of the national team of the Czech Republic until it was disbanded. From 2010 to 2013 he was a four time winner of the European Cup EDGA. Divorced since 2008, Lidinský has a daughter named Klara. He lives currently in Novy Knin on Pribram.
Political career
In the Czech Senate elections of 2014, he ran as an independent for the :cs:Občanská konzervativní strana|Civic Conservative Partyin the district of Pelhřimov, and gained 2.82% of the votes and ended up in 8th place. In 2015 he became a member of the tiny political party The Dawn of Direct Democracy, in July of the same year he designated :cs:Marek Černoch|Marek Černochto lead the movement at the electoral conference in August 2015. He was then elected as chairman of the movement on 8 August 2015, and renamed the party Dawn - National Coalition.
