Party_of_Civic_Rights_–_Zemanovci

Party of Civic Rights

Party of Civic Rights

Czech political party

The Party of Civic Rights (Czech: Strana Práv Občanů, SPO), also referred to as Zemanovci,[2] was a centre-left,[3][4][5] left-wing populist[2] social-democratic[3] political party in the Czech Republic founded in October 2009 by Miloš Zeman, the former prime minister of the Czech Republic and former leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party.[6] Zeman was elected the president of the Czech Republic in the second round of the 2013 Czech presidential election. The party advocated direct democracy[3] and the Nordic model.[7]

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In 2014, Jan Veleba, elected as an independent candidate in the 2012 Czech Senate election, joined the party and became its chairman.[citation needed] In the 2014 Czech Senate election, former JZD Slusovice chairman František Čuba was elected as the party's second senator.[8] It has never won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. In the 2016 Czech regional elections, it participated in a coalition with Okamura's Freedom and Direct Democracy party and won 16 seats.

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    "Místo členů nabírají některé strany registrované příznivce". Denik.cz. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
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    "Rechtspopulistische Parteien in Tschechien. - Vile Netzwerk". Vile-netzwerk.de. Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 11 November 2017. die linkspopulistische Strana Práv Občanů ZEMANOVCI
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    Jean-Michel de Waele; Fabien Escalona; Mathieu Viera, eds. (2013). The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-137-29380-0.
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    "Volby 2017 - Strana práv občanů". ceskatelevize.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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    "Strana práv občanů". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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    Laca, Peter (10 May 2010). "Czech Social Democrats Widen Lead in Poll Before May Elections". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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    Matoušek, Ondřej (28 March 2013). "Švédský sociální systém: model hodný následování?" [The Swedish social system: a model worth following?]. Hospodářské noviny (in Czech). Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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    "doc. Ing. František Čuba, CSc". Senat.cz. Senate of the Czech Parliament. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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