Adam Scheinherr is a Czech politician, chairman of the Praha sobě movement and its candidate for mayor of Prague in the 2026 municipal elections.
Adam Scheinherr is the chairman of the municipal movement Praha sobě and its lead candidate in the October 2026 municipal elections in Prague, in which he is running for mayor [1]. From 2018 to 2022 he was deputy mayor for transport for Praha sobě [1]. From 2018 to 2022 he was also chairman of the supervisory boards of the Prague Public Transit Company and of Technická správa komunikací, and he studied mechanical engineering. [2]
In his election campaign he proposes that fares and parking charges rise regularly by the rate of inflation, and he wants to quickly buy up places at private and church-run grammar schools, which would cost the city 120 million crowns a year, in order to address the shortage of places at secondary schools. According to Scheinherr the city would buy up the capacity of private and church schools, where 1,500 places could be opened immediately, and would top up the tuition so that pupils pay nothing; it would be a provisional solution for four years. [2] He rules out a coalition with the ANO movement in Prague [1]. After the elections, by contrast, he does not rule out a coalition with the Czech Pirate Party, and in an interview with INFO.CZ he advocates a new circular metro line O. [4] In an election debate organised by iDNES on 30 September 2026 he criticised the outgoing mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, saying he could not recall a single project that Svoboda had prepared and pushed through [3]. Tomáš Portlík, the lead candidate of the Spolu pro Prahu coalition, called Scheinherr’s aggressive rhetoric a bad habit of Praha sobě. [3]
According to Scheinherr, an annual public transport ticket should rise by roughly 365 crowns a year, and the city should obtain at least 500 flats a year from developers for teachers, nurses and firefighters. [2]
A promotional clip for Praha sobě featuring Scheinherr, which the movement published in early June 2026, was taken down by the YouTube platform after several weeks; according to Hospodářské noviny, the Municipal Court in Prague is to deal with the matter shortly after the elections. [1]
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- Hospodářské noviny — 1 October 2026
- E15 — 1 October 2026
- iDNES.cz — 1 October 2026
- Info.cz — 2 October 2026