Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)

Civic Democratic Party Občanská demokratická strana
Abbreviation	ODS
Leader	Petr Fiala
Founder	Václav Klaus
Founded	21 April 1991
Preceded by	Civic Forum
Headquarters	Truhlářská 9, Prague
Newspaper	Right Riverbank
Think tank	CEVRO Liberal Conservative Academy[1]
Youth wing	Young Conservatives
Membership  (April 2016)	14,123[2]
Ideology	Liberal conservatism[3] Euroscepticism[4]
Political position	Centre-right[5] to right-wing[6][7][8]
European affiliation	Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
European Parliament group	European Conservatives and Reformists
Colours	Blue
Chamber of Deputies	16 / 200
Senate	10 / 81
European Parliament	2 / 21
Regional councils	76 / 675
Local councils	2,398 / 62,300
Website
http://www.ods.cz/
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The Civic Democratic Party (Czech: Občanská demokratická strana, ODS) is a liberal-conservative^[9][10] political party in the Czech Republic. It holds 16 seats in the Chamber of Deputies after being marginalized in the 2013 legislative election.

Founded in 1991 as the pro-free market wing of the Civic Forum by Václav Klaus and modelled on the British Conservative Party.^[11][12] The ODS won the 1992 legislative election, and has remained in government for most of the Czech Republic's independence. From every elections of Chamber of Deputies until 2013 it emerged as one of the two strongest parties. Václav Klaus served as the first Prime Minister of the Czech Republic after partition of Czechoslovakia, from 1993 to 1997. Mirek Topolánek, who succeeded him as leader of the party in December 2002, served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009. In the 2010 election, the party lost 28 seats, finishing second, but as the largest party right of the centre, it formed a centre-right government with Petr Nečas as Prime Minister. In the 2013 legislative election, the party was marginalized by only securing 16 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, relegating the party to opposition since July 2013. The party is currently led by Petr Fiala, who was elected leader on a party convention in January 2014.

The ODS is a member of the International Democratic Union, Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) and European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament.

History

Logo used until 2015

Formation

The party was founded in 1991 as one of two successors to the Civic Forum. The ODS represented followers of Václav Klaus, and was pro-free market, as opposed to the centrist Civic Movement. An agreement was reached to split the party into two at the Civic Forum Assembly on 23 February 1991. This was followed on 21 April by a formal declaration of a new party, and Klaus was elected its first President.^[13] The party agreed to continue in coalition in the Czech government with the Civic Movement, but this collapsed in July 1991.

The Civic Democrats, who represented demands for a tighter Czechoslovak federation, began to organise in Slovakia.^[14] Ahead of the 1992 election, the ODS ruled out an electoral alliance with the Liberal Democrats, but agreed to an alliance with Václav Benda's Christian Democratic Party (KDS) in order to boost its appeal to conservatives.^[14] The ODS won the election, winning 66 seats (and the KDS another ten), and formed a centre-right coalition with the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) and the KDU-ČSL, with Klaus as Prime Minister.^[15]

Dominant party

It was the dominant party in two coalition governments in the Czech Republic in 1992–1997, a majority administration (1992–96) and a short-lived minority government (1996–97).

On 2 June 1995, the ODS and KDS signed a merger agreement, which would come into effect on 18 March 1996, ahead of that year's election. However, at the election, whilst the ODS improved to 68 seats, its allies fell, leading to the government receiving only 99 seats: two short of a majority. Klaus continued with a minority government, relying on its acceptance by the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).

In December 1997, allegations of the party receiving illegal donations and maintaining a secret slush fund caused the ODA and KDU-ČSL to withdraw from the coalition, and the government collapsed. Josef Tošovský was appointed caretaker, pending new elections in June 1998. Despite the scandal, Klaus was re-elected party chairman, and in January 1998, some legislators opposed to Klaus, led by Jan Ruml and Ivan Pilip, left the party in the so-called 'Sarajevo Assassination' and formed the Freedom Union (US).^[16]

Opposition 1998 to 2006

At the elections, the ODS fell even further, to 63 seats, while the US won 19. Due to the split, the Freedom Union refused to support the ODS, preventing them from getting a majority, the US's executive also refused to support the ČSSD. As a result, on 9 July 1998, the ODS signed the Opposition Agreement, which pledged the party to provide confidence and maintain a ČSSD government under Miloš Zeman.^[17] This agreement was then superseded by the more explicit 'Patent of Tolerance' in January 2000.^[18]

In the 2002 legislative election, the party went from being the largest seat holder to being the second largest party in the Chamber of Deputies with 58 of 200 seats, and for the first time in its history, assumed the role of a true opposition party. Mirek Topolánek took over the party leadership. The former Czech president, Václav Klaus, has been the party's honorary president for his first term in the office. In the European Parliament elections in June 2004 and in Senate and regional assembly elections in November 2004 it received over 30% of the votes.

2006: Return to government

Leader of the Civic Democrats from 2002 until 2010, Mirek Topolánek led the party to an election victory in 2006 and became the party's first Prime Minister since 1997.

In the 2006 legislative election the ODS was the largest seat holder in the Chamber of Deputies with 81 seats. It formed a government in coalition with the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL) and the Green Party (SZ). The party suffered heavy losses in regional and Senate elections in 2008, losing all 12 regional governorships it had previously held.

The Cabinet had lost a no-confidence vote on 24 March 2009. The country was then governed by a newly formed caretaker Cabinet, which was nominated by ODS, ČSSD and SZ. Early elections were set for 9–10 October 2009 but were due to unexpected development in the Constitutional Court and House of Deputies postponed to May 2010.

Civic Democratic Party won the second place after Czech Social Democratic Party and formed a centre-right Government with TOP 09 and Public Affairs. Public Affairs split from government on 22 April 2012 but were replaced by LIDEM. Civic Democratic Party was the same year widely defeated in regional election as finished third overall and won only in the Plzeň region. Party also lost 2010 and 2012 Senate elections.

ODS nominated Přemysl Sobotka for president of the Czech Republic during 2013 election. Sobotka. Sobotka has received only 2.46% of votes and didn't qualify for second round. Ods has held presidential primaries prior the election which Sobotka won. Sobotka's poor showing in general election was caused by government's unpopularity and lack of support from party.^[19] The party's leadership supported Karel Schwarzenberg in second round of the election.^[20]

2013: Back in opposition

After resignation and fall of Cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Nečas ODS proposed Miroslava Němcová to the position of the Prime Minister to President Zeman saying that she will be able to form a coalition and succeed a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies. However, President Zeman refused to appoint her and called on early elections on 25–26 October 2013. ODS suffered heavy losses. It gained only 16 seats and finished 5th. The party also lost elections of the European parliament and of Senate and municipal in 2014.

Leader of the Civic Democratic Party Petr Fiala.

The 24th Congress of the Civic Democratic Party elected on 18–19 January 2014 a new leadership of ODS. The former rector of Masaryk University and minister Petr Fiala was elected as chairman and Member of the European Parliament Jan Zahradil as 1.vice-chairman. In his book Citizens, Democrats and Party members (Czech: Občané, demokraté a straníci) Fiala says that party needs to be attractive to new, young people and ODS shall have experts on economics, health care, education etc.

In the Chamber of Deputies ODS formed an informal relationship, coalition with TOP 09 and both have been opposing laws such as Control report of Value-added tax. On 26 May 2015, ODS, TOP 09 and Dawn of Direct Democracy called on unsuccessful vote of no confidence to Cabinet of Bohuslav Sobotka.

As of December 2015 opinion polls showed ODS with 8.6% nationwide.^[21] Some polling agencies and political commentators are of the opinion that ODS is on the path to become main centre-right party again.^[22][23][24]

On 16 January 2016, Fiala was re-elected as Leader of the ODS. ODS participated in 2016 regional and Senate election. It received about 10% of votes and its candidates secured seats in all regions. 6 candidates nominated by ODS qualified for second round for Senate. 4 of them were eventually elected Fiala then said that ODS returned to position of major right wing party.^[25][26]

Ideology

The ODS is liberal-conservative^[27][28][29] and conservative-liberal,^[30][31][32] supports economic liberalism,^[33] and is Eurosceptic.^[4][34]

The party's ideas are very close to those of the British Conservative Party, Swedish Moderate Party, and other liberal-conservative parties in Europe. The basic principles of the party's program are "low taxes, public finances and future without debts, support for families with children, addressable social system, reducing bureaucracy, better conditions for business, a safe state with the transatlantic links. No tricks and populism."

ODS opposes multiculturalism and believes that immigrants from different cultures should be accepted only if they respect Czech culture and learn Czech language and about history. ODS also supports fighting radical Islam which considers as dangerous as Nazism. ODS also opposes accepting Muslim customs such as wearing Burqas. Some wings in ODS are also less supportive of LGBT rights.^[35][36][37]

Organisation

Party structure

The highest body of the ODS is Congress which meets every year and elects leadership every two years. The party is led by the Executive Council and Republic Assembly in time between meetings of Congress. Executive body meets every Month and party is led by Panel between meetings of Executive Council. Panel consists of Party's Leader, Deputy Leaders and Chief Whips of the Parliamentary ODS.^[38]

ODS is structured similarly to the structure of subdivision of the Czech Republic. The structure consists of local associations. Group of local associations forms area. Areas are organised as parts of Region. ^[39][40]

Membership

ODS had 18,500 Members in 1991. Number of members was growing along with party's influence and soon got over 23,000. It decreased during political crisis in 1998 to 16,000. Party stopped the decrease after preliminary election and membership was growing once again. It peaked in 2010 when it reached 31,011. The member base started to decline rapidly after 2010. It had only 17,994 members prior the 2013 election.^[41] ODS had 14,771 members in May 2015 and the member base was stabilised according to leaders of the party.^[42]

Young Conservatives

Young Conservatives (abbreviated MK) is a youth wing of ODS. Young people within the age from 15 to 35 apply for a membership in the MK. The founding congress of MK was held on 8 December 1991 as a result of previous preparations through Charter of Young Conservatives by a group of students at the University of Technology in Brno and Law Students' Association "Všehrd" from Faculty of Law at the Charles University. The Young Conservatives organize wide range of events from meetings with local or national politicians to elections campaigns and international events.

CEVRO Liberal Conservative Academy

CEVRO Liberal Conservative Academy is a think-tank affiliated with ODS. It was established in 1999. Its goal is political education which tries to spread liberal-conservative thinking. In 2005, CEVRO established its own private university known as CEVRO Institute. CEVRO has four newspapers - CEVRO Revue, The Week in European Politics, The Week in Czech Politics and Forthnightly.^[43]

International organisations

ODS joined European Democrat Union (EDU) in 1992 as one of the first parties in former Eastern Bloc. Václav Klaus even became a Vice President of EDU. ODS remained in EDU until it became part of European People's Party (EPP) in 2002. ODS rejected to join EPP due to its ideological differences and instead became a member of European Democrats.^[44]

ODS joined International Democrat Union (IDU) in 2001.^[45] Chairmans of Civic Democratic Party served as Vice Presidents of IDU.

In July 2006, the Civic Democratic Party signed an agreement with the British Conservative Party to leave the European People's Party–European Democrats (EPP-ED) Group in the European Parliament and form the Movement for European Reform in 2009. On 22 June 2009, it was announced that ODS would join the newly formed European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) parliamentary group, an anti-federalist and Eurosceptic group, which currently its third largest bloc in the European Parliament. ODS then became one of founding members of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR), a conservative and eurosceptic European political party, defending broader conservative and economically liberal principles. Other members of AECR include Conservative Party, Law and Justice or Freedom and Solidarity. AECR was later renamed to Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.

Leadership

No.	Name	Photo	Since	Until
1	Václav Klaus		21 April 1991	15 November 2002
2	Mirek Topolánek		15 November 2002	13 April 2010
3	Petr Nečas		20 June 2010	17 July 2013
4	Petr Fiala		18 January 2014	Incumbent

Note: Only properly elected leaders are included.

Expert Team

Expert team serves as shadow cabinet of Civic Democratic Party.^[46]

Resort	Member
Economics and Finances	Jan Skopeček (politician)
Development of economy and business environment	Alexandra Udženija
Foreign Affairs	Jan Zahradil
Defence	Jana Černochová
Security	Martin Červíček
Industry and Business	Martin Kuba
Transport	Zbyněk Stanjura
Agriculture	Veronika Vrecionová
Public Administration	Martin Kupka
Digital Society and e-government	Alexander Bellu
Justice	Pavel Blažek
Social Affairs	Lenka Kohoutová
Health	Petr Zimmermann
Education	Václav Klaus Jr.
Research and Innovations	Jiří Nantl
Culture	Marek Pokorný
European Affairs	Adéla Kadlecová
Environment	Jan Zahradník
Regional Development	Martin Baxa

Election results

Below are charts of the results that the Civic Democratic Party has secured in the Chamber of Deputies, Senate, European Parliament, and regional assemblies at each election.

Chamber of Deputies

Year	Vote	Vote %	Seats	+/-	Place	Notes	Position
1990	...	...	41 / 200		2nd	Split from Civic Forum in 1991.	Majority Government
1992	1,924,483	29.7	66 / 200		1st	Participated in Coalition with KDS.	Majority Government
1996	1,794,560	29.6	68 / 200		1st	Minority government supported by oppositional ČSSD.	Minority Government
1998	1,656,011	27.7	63 / 200		2nd	Supported a Minority Government of ČSSD.	Opposition Agreement
2002	1,166,975	24.5	58 / 200		2nd	Main opposition party	in opposition
2006	1,892,475	35.3	81 / 200		1st	2006 minority government, 2007-2009 coalition with KDU-ČSL and Greens.	Majority Government
2010	1,057,792	20.2	53 / 200		2nd	Coalition government with TOP 09 and VV/LIDEM	Majority Government
2013	384,174	7.7	16 / 200		5th	Opposition Party	in opposition

Senate

Election	First round			Second round			Seats	Total Seats
	Votes	%	Places^*	Votes	%	Places^*
1996^**	1,006,036	36.5	1st	1,134,044	49.2	1st	32	32 / 81
1998	266,377	27.7	1st	210,156	39.1	1st	9	26 / 81
2000	203,039	23.6	1st	166,133	29.5	1st	8	22 / 81
2002	165,794	24.9	1st	284,537	34.6	1st	9	26 / 81
2004	241,120	33.3	1st	257,861	53.8	1st	19	37 / 81
2006	354,273	33.3	1st	289,568	50.4	1st	14	41 / 81
2008	252,827	24.1	2nd	266,731	32.4	2nd	3	35 / 81
2010	266,311	23.1	2nd	225,708	33.1	2nd	8	25 / 81
2012	151,950	17.28	3rd	117,990	22.95	2nd	4	15 / 81
2014^***	118,268	11.52	3rd	53,149	11.21	4th	2	14 / 81
2016	107,785	12.23	3rd	48,609	11.46	4th	4[47]	10 / 81

^* Places are by number of votes gained.
^** The whole Senate was elected. Only one third of Senate was elected in all subsequent elections.
^***One of its candidates was elected in coalition with Koruna Česká (party).

Presidential

Election	Candidate		First round result			Second round result
			Votes	%Votes	Result	Votes	%Votes	Result
2013		Přemysl Sobotka	126,846	2.46	8th	—

European Parliament

Year Vote Vote % Seats Place 2004 700,942 30.0 9 / 24 1st 2009 741,946 31.5 9 / 22 1st 2014 116,389 7.7 2 / 21 6th

Local election

Year	Vote	Vote %	Seats
1994	37,872,640	29.56	7,289
1998	18,959,841	24.16	5,697
2002	20,360,211	25.21	5,715
2006	39,353,957	36.2	7,1011
2010	16,943,967	18.78	5,112
2014	8,930,650	9.01	2,398

Regional election

Year	Vote	Vote %	Seats	Places	Governors	Coalitions
2000	559,301	23.8	185	7x 1st, 3x 2nd, 3x 3rd	8	8
2004	769,848	36.4	291	12x 1st, 1x 2nd	12	12
2008	687,005	23.6	180	12x 2nd, 1x 3rd	0	4
2012	324,081	12.3	102	1x 1st, 3x 3rd, 7x 4th, 2x 5th	0	0
2016	239,836	9.5	76	3x 3rd, 4x 4th, 4x 5th, 2x 6th, 1x 7th	0	10

Czechoslovak parliament

Chamber of Deputies

Year	Vote	Vote %	Seats	Place	Notes	Position
1992	2,200,937	23.0	48	1st	Participated in Coalition with KDS.	Majority Government

House of Nations

Year	Vote	Vote %	Seats	Place	Notes
1992	2,168,421	22.6	37	1st	Participated in Coalition with KDS

Elected representatives

Civic Democratic Party has 16 members of the Chamber of Deputies.

Jan Adamec Marek Benda Petr Bendl Adolf Beznoska Pavel Blažek Jana Černochová Petr Fiala Jana Fischerová

Radim Holeček Simeon Karamazov Miroslava Němcová Martin Novotný Zbyněk Stanjura Bohuslav Svoboda Vladislav Vilímec Jan Zahradník

Civic Democratic Party has 10 Senators of the Senate of the Czech Republic.

Lumír Aschenbrenner Jiří Burian Daniela Filipiová Tomáš Grulich Tomáš Jirsa

Jaroslav Kubera Zdeněk Nytra Jiří Oberfalzer Miloš Vystrčil Jaroslav Zeman

Civic Democratic Party has 2 MEPs.

Evžen Tošenovský

Jan Zahradil

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External links

• Official website (English) (Czech)