Strana zelených (Czech Republic)

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Strana zelených
party of the Greens
Logo of the Green Party
Michal BergMagdalena Davis
Party leader Michal Berg , Magdalena Davis
vice-chairman Anna Gümplová , Zdeňka Perglová
founding December 9, 1989
Headquarters Senovážné náměstí 2/7
110 00 Prague 1
Alignment Green politics
Colours) green
Seats in the House of Representatives
0/200
Senate mandates
1/81
Number of members approx. 1,500
Website www.zeleni.cz

Strana zelených (SZ), German Green Party , is a green political party in the Czech Republic . It was registered on February 3, 1990. She is represented in the Senate by Eliška Wagnerová , and in the House of Representatives she lost all her seats in the 2010 election.

development

Milan Horáček , one of the party's activists

The Green Party, one of three green parties in the Czech Republic, emerged immediately after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It was officially founded (and registered as a party) in 1990. The party only grew in importance after 2002, especially with the In 2004 European elections she received 3.16% of the vote and in the same year she won a seat in the Senate elections.

After a few wing battles, the first split occurred in 2005 when small parts of the party, led by Jakub Patočka , left the Green Party and founded the new Zelení (the Greens ) party .

Also out of dissatisfaction with the policies of the Green Party, there was another split in 2009 when a small Democratická strana zelených ( Democratic Party of the Greens ) party emerged in March .

In the election for the House of Representatives on 28./29. May 2010 the party failed with 2.4 percent at the 5% hurdle, also despite slight gains in the early 2013 election with 3.1 percent.

Election results

General election 2006

Kateřina Jacques

In the 2006 House of Representatives elections, the party received 6.3% of the vote and 6 seats in Prague ( Martin Bursík and Kateřina Jacques ), South Moravian Region ( Ondřej Liška ), Moravian-Silesian Region ( Věra Jakubková ), Ústí Region ( Přemysl Rabas ) and Central Bohemia Region ( Olga Zubová ).

As a weaker party, it was only able to prevail in the election to the House of Representatives in 2006 in the five most populous constituencies ( regions ) in which a larger number of parliamentary seats is awarded and the actual threshold clause is lower than in the smaller regions. Although the party so z. B. in the Liberec region , led by the popular mayor of Jindřichovice pod Smrkem Petr Pávek, achieved a best result among the regions of 9.58%, this was not enough to get one of the eight seats distributed.

The party entered the government of Prime Minister Topolánek in January 2007 . Together with ODS and KDU-ČSL , however, the government could only rely on 100 out of 200 seats. It was therefore dependent on the support of defectors from the ČSSD . With Martin Bursík the party provided the environment minister in the government and with Ondřej Liška the minister of education. In addition, Karel Schwarzenberg became Foreign Minister at the suggestion of the SZ.

2008 presidential election

In the 2008 presidential elections to be held by parliament, the Czech Green Party did not support the candidate of its coalition partner ODS , incumbent Václav Klaus . Together with the ČSSD , she nominated the independent economist Jan Švejnar as a candidate . Because the communists abstained, Václav Klaus was able to assert himself again.

2008 elections

In the elections to the parliaments of the regions (kraje), as well as in the partial election of the Senate in October 2008, both the party and the other two governing parties received poor scores. Only in the Liberec region did it come close to the 5% threshold at 4.94%. In the Zlín region it achieved only 2.07%. In the Senate elections, only two candidates in Prague's electoral districts, with 15.4% and 18.5% respectively, managed to gain a larger share of the vote. The entry into the runoff election was missed by only 2.4% and 3.8% respectively. Outside of Prague, however, the direct candidates mostly received less than 5% of the vote.

Breakup of the parliamentary group

In November 2008, Olga Zubová and Věra Jakubková announced their exit from the party after a long smoldering argument. They declared that they could not support the party's course regarding the approval of the stationing of the radar system for the US missile defense system on Czech soil. The government of Prime Minister Topolánek lost the majority in parliament and was overthrown - with the votes of Zubová and Jakubová - in March 2009 with a vote of no confidence brought in by the ČSSD . Jan Fischer's subsequent cabinet did not initially include any party members. On May 8, 2009, the complete cabinet list was announced and shortly afterwards the cabinet, to which Ladislav Miko (environment) and Michael Kocáb (human rights) belonged for the SZ, was sworn in. Miko was followed by Dr. Jan Dusík, also for the SZ.

After clearly missing the 5% clause in the European elections in June 2009 , party chairman Bursík resigned his office and was temporarily replaced by Ondřej Liška .

Election results

  • 1990 Czech National Parliament: 4.1% - 0 seats
  • 1992 Czech National Parliament: As part of the Liberal-Social Union (Czech Liberálně sociální unie ) 6.5%
Percentage results of the SZ in the constituencies of the House of Representatives 2010

Party leader

  • 1990–1991: Milan Ječmínek
  • 1991–1992: Aleš Mucha
  • October 1992 - October 1995: Jaroslav Vlček
  • October 1995 - March 1999: Emil Zeman
  • March 1999 - March 2002: Jiří Čejka
  • March 2002 - April 2003: Miroslav Rokos
  • April 2003 - September 2005: Jan Beránek
  • September 2005 - June 2009: Martin Bursík
  • June 2009 - July 2014: Ondřej Liška
  • January 2015 - January 2016: Jana Drápalová
  • January 2016 - October 2017: Matěj Stropnický
  • January 2018 - January 2020: Petr Štěpánek
  • Since January 2020: Michal Berg and Magdalena Davis

Web links

Commons : Strana zelených  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mvcr.cz ( Memento of October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 26 kB)
  2. ↑ Strana Zelenych - Czech Republic, www.europeangreens.org ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English, accessed February 25, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europeangreens.org
  3. ↑ Parliamentary elections 2006