Občanské forum
The Občanské fórum ( OF ; German: Citizens' Forum ) was a political movement in the Czech Republic that emerged on November 19, 1989, two days after the start of the Velvet Revolution in Prague as a spontaneous platform for various civic activities. The OF rejected the totalitarian communist regime.
Based on the New Forum of the GDR , OF co-founder and journalist Jan Urban introduced the term fórum , Václav Havel the adjective občanské .
Later part of the movement evolved into a center-right party. The first and last chairman of the OF was from October 17, 1990 Václav Klaus , later chairman of this party ODS .
In Slovakia , at that time one of the two republics of the ČSSR / ČSFR , the Verejnosť proti násiliu (VPN; German: public against violence ) played a similar role.
Parties that followed the OF
- Občanská democická aliance (German: civil democratic alliance) - in 1990 the members of this party still stand for election for the OF, later they appear as a party themselves.
- Občanská Demokratieická strana (German: Bourgeois Democratic Party) - This party came into being in 1991 after the OF was finally dissolved, the first chairman was Václav Klaus .
- Občanské hnutí (German: Citizens' Movement) - This party was also formed in 1991 after the final dissolution of the OF, later called itself " Svobodní democé " (German: Free Democrats) and later joined the " Liberální strana národně sociální " (German: People's Socialists or National Socialists, the word has a different connotation in Czech than in German. The literal translation is “National Social Liberal Party”).
- Strana pro otevřenou společnost (German: Party for an Open Society) - founded on April 4, 1998
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Alena Müllerová, Vladimír Hanzel: Albertov 16:00 Příběhy sametové revoluce , Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-7422-002-9 , chapter Alexandr Vondra , p. 247 (Czech)