Lubomír Zaorálek served on the Ostrava City Council since 1990. He was elected on the ballot of the Civic Forum (Občanské fórum), being one of its founders and representatives appointed to the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly in January 1990. In 1996, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic for the first time. He was a chairman between 2002 and 2006 and became vice-chairman afterwards. In 2014 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affair, after being party’s Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs for 12 years.