Starostové a nezávislí

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Starostové a nezávislí
STANlogoNoveWiki.png
Party leader Vít Rakušan
founding 2004
Alignment Regionalism , bourgeois liberalism , pro-European politics
Seats in the House of Representatives
6/200
Senate mandates
19/81
MEPs
1/21
EP Group Group of the European People's Party
Website starostove-nezavisli.cz

Starostové a nezávislí , abbreviated to STAN ( German : Mayor and Independent ), is a party-like, liberal-conservative political movement in the Czech Republic . It was created in 2004, in its current form in 2009. The focus of activities is on issues of decentralization. The chairman was Petr Gazdík from February 2009 , the new chairman since April 2019 is Vít Rakušan , who is also involved in the political association Změna pro Kolín .

history

As early as August 19, 2004, the movement was registered with the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic under the name “Nezávislí starostové pro kraj” (abbreviated NSK, Independent Mayors for the Region), which was composed of dissatisfied mayors, independent local politicians and politically active citizens was almost exclusively active at the district or regional level , especially in the Zlín region . In other districts, the movement occurred under some slightly different names. In the district elections in autumn 2008, the movement managed to get just over 10 percent of the vote in the Zlín region.

On February 19, 2009, representatives of the movement from 14 districts near Prague met for a meeting at which the movement under the current name "Starostové a nezávislí" and at the state level was founded. Although the focus of activity remained on the local level of district politics, the intention was to establish itself also on the political level in the Czech Republic. Registration as a “political movement” took place at the Ministry of the Interior on February 24, 2009, and Petr Gazdík was registered as chairman .

Before the parliamentary elections in 2009, which were brought forward and finally stopped by the Constitutional Court , the STAN entered into an alliance with the TOP 09 party , which continued and led to a considerable success in the 2010 parliamentary elections : the list of candidates from TOP 09 (41 mandates) became three Stan representatives elected to the Czech House of Representatives.

Electoral successes

In October 2008 the STAN succeeded in penetrating politics for the first time. In the local elections she was successful in 4 of the 14 districts of the Czech Republic with a total of 21 seats:

In the local regional elections of 2010, the STAN achieved 1,243 out of a total of 62,178 seats and became the sixth largest force in the country.

In the parliamentary elections in 2010, some STAN members ran on the TOP 09 list, three of them were elected.

In the early elections to the House of Representatives in 2013 , STAN members successfully ran on the list of TOP 09 with five elected MPs.

Logo of the movement until 2017

In 2014 the movement participated in three elections. In the municipal city and municipal elections in October, 3,073 candidates prevailed (out of a total of 62,300 seats), but mostly in various electoral coalitions and on their electoral lists. In the simultaneous elections to the Senate in October, STAN's candidate Zbyněk Linhart was able to record a success (33.34% in the first ballot, 71.43% in the second ballot), another, Jiří Vosecký , who ran for STAN even though he was belonged to another party was also elected (20.14% in the first ballot, 59.32% in the second ballot); a total of 18 more candidates on the joint electoral list with TOP 09 were sent into the race. In the elections to the European Parliament , which took place in May , STAN achieved a respectable result of almost 16 percent in an electoral coalition with TOP 09, equivalent to 4 mandates for the electoral list, one of them directly for STAN (out of a total of 21 mandates for the Czech Republic).

In the House of Representatives election in the Czech Republic in 2017 on October 20 and 21, 2017, STAN received 5.18 percent of the vote.

In the 2019 European elections, in which STAN again formed a coalition with TOP 09, they (both together) received 11.65 percent of the votes and 3 mandates.

classification

In election reports by the Böll and Mercator Foundation, Starostové a nezávislí is counted among the pro-European-conservative and liberal-conservative parties.

The party is compared in Telepolis with the free voters .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rejstřík politických stran a politických hnutí , database of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic, online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz/…
  2. ↑ Volby do zastupitelstev krajů konané dne 17.10. - 18.10.2008 , elections in the Zlín region 2008, material of the Statistical Office of the Czech Republic, online at: volby.cz / ...
  3. ↑ a b Lukáš Žmolík: Starostové a nezávislí a jejich politická orientace , Masaryk University Brno, 2018, p. 22ff., Online at: is.muni.cz / ...
  4. ↑ a b From the founding document of January 8, 2009, online at www.starostove-nezavisli.cz/archiv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Czech, accessed April 12, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.starostove-nezavisli.cz  
  5. ↑ Společné prohlášení TOP 09 a Starostů pro volby do PS P ČR 2009 (declaration of TOP 09 and Starostové a nezávislí), online at: www.top09.cz /.../ spolecne-prohlaseni ... (PDF; 61 kB) , Czech, accessed April 12, 2011
  6. ↑ a b Volby do poslanecké sněmovny ČR 2010 , online at: volby.idnes.cz/poslanecka-snemovna-2010 , Czech, accessed on April 12, 2011
  7. ↑ Press release of February 13, 2009, Word document, linked online to: www.starostove-nezavisli.cz/tiskove-oddeleni ( Memento of January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Czech, accessed on April 12, 2011
  8. ↑ Volby do obecních zastupitelstev ČR 2010 , online at: volby.idnes.cz , Czech, accessed on April 12, 2011
  9. ↑ a b c d Výsledky voleb , online at www.starostove-nezavisli.cz/volby-1 / ... ( Memento from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Volby do Senátu Parlamentu ČR konané dne 10.10. - 11.10.2014 , overviews of the Statistical Office, online at: www.volby.cz / ...
  11. ↑ Communication from the State Electoral Commission of May 26, 2014 in Act 92/2014 Coll., Online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz/sbirka-zakonu / ...
  12. ↑ Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 20.10. - 21.10.2017 , information from the Czech Statistical Office ČSÚ, online at: volby.cz/pls/
  13. ↑ Česko zná jména nových europoslanců , press release of the Statistical Office of the Czech Republic of May 26, 2019, online at: czso.cz / ...
  14. ^ After the elections in the Czech Republic: The end of liberal democracy in “Eastern Europe”? from October 26, 2017 on boell.de
  15. ↑ The election to the Czech House of Representatives 2017 Chmelar, Kristina 2017: The election to the Czech House of Representatives 2017, MIDEM report 02/17, Dresden
  16. ↑ Czech Republic: Anti-establishment party wins regional elections - Telepolis. In: heise.de. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .

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