Jana Nečasová (née Nagyová, born 21 July 1964) is a Czech former politician and civil servant. After running the Civic Democratic Party head office, she became chief of staff for Petr Nečas, who went on to become Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2010. In 2013, Nečasová was part of a political scandal, where she used the Military Secret Service to spy on Nečas' then wife to expedite divorce proceedings, marrying Nečas herself months later. The scandal would cause the collapse of Nečas' government, and lead Nečasová to be embroiled court cases for the following decade.
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Early career
Jana Nečasová was born on 21 July 1964 in Chodov, Czechoslovakia. There she worked as a pay clerk, before leaving her then husband and starting work for the Civic Democratic Party in Karlovy Vary in 1996, where she would become personal assistant to the local senator.
In 2005, Nečasová moved to Prague to run the head office of the Civic Democratic Party, working alongside the then deputy party chairman, Petr Nečas. In 2006, when Nečas became Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, he appointed her as his chief of staff, a role she continued when Nečas became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2010.
Over the following three years, concerns were raised over the amount of influence Nečasová had over the Prime Minister, as she was paid large bonuses, and appeared to step over the bounds of her role. When Nečas split with his wife in early 2013, speculation about a relationship between the two appeared in the Czech press.