Marie Stiborová

Marie Stiborová (2 February 1950 – 13 February 2020) was a Czech university lecturer, politician, former member of Czech National Council and Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. She was also Communist presidential candidate in 1993 Czech presidential election. She later became the leader of reformist wing within KSČM and established Left Bloc party,

Stiborová was born in 1950. She studied Chemistry at Charles University and became a lecturer at the university. She joined the Communist Party in 1976 and became a member of Parliament in 1986. The Communist Party nominated her for the president of the Czech Republic in 1993.She lost to Václav Havel.

Stiborová left the Communist Party in 1993 and established Left Bloc. She left politics in 1997.