Věci veřejné
| Věci veřejné | |
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| founding | 2001 |
| resolution | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Štefánikova 23/203 150 00 Prague 5 |
| Colours) | sky blue |
Věci veřejné (abbreviated VV, German about public affairs ) was a political party in the Czech Republic .
history
The party advocated the strengthening of direct democracy programmatically. In this way, the members and sympathizers were able to have a direct say in the party's political will at Internet referendums. The party was founded in 2001 as a regional party in Prague's district 1 and was able to obtain its first municipal mandate there in 2002. In the local elections in 2006, she already achieved 22% of the votes in this city district and was also able to win mandates in other municipalities, but initially did not have a single mandate beyond the municipal level. In the European elections in the Czech Republic in 2009 , Věci veřejné received 2.4% of the vote.
In the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2010 , the party received 10.9% of the vote and 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
The party's chairman from 2009 to 2013 was the Czech cultural worker, publicist and presenter Radek John , who was also the Czech Interior Minister and Vice Prime Minister from July 2010 to April 2011 and then briefly held the office of Vice Prime Minister for Anti-Corruption. On February 16, 2013, John was replaced in the party chairmanship by the former transport minister Vít Bárta , who was previously considered a "secret" chairman. Bárta prevailed at the party congress with 80 out of 98 votes against four opposing candidates. John, who announced his retirement from politics, took over the office of honorary chairman.
In addition to John, the party initially provided ministers Vít Bárta (transport), Kamil Jankovský (regional development) and Josef Dobeš (education, youth and sport) in the Nečas government, which has been in office since July 2010 . After a government crisis, Bárta and John had to resign from their ministerial posts in April 2011, and Karolína Peake took over the post of Vice-Head of Government for Anti-Corruption. The crisis was triggered by the amalgamation of VV with the security agency ABL, of which Bárta was previously the head. In addition, allegations were made against Barta for bribing three MPs of the party during this period. The three MPs, including the incumbent group leader in the House of Representatives Kristýna Kočí , were expelled from the group. Barta's conviction in April 2012 led to an even greater crisis in the party, which resulted in the breakup of the parliamentary group and the termination of the coalition agreement. While the VV itself has formed a “constructive opposition” since then, the government majority was secured by the resigned former members around Vice Prime Minister Karolína Peake. Shortly thereafter, Peake founded the party LIDEM - liberální democé , which the ministers and deputies who had resigned from the VV joined.
After the resignation of Petr Nečas in June 2013, the party supported the formation of the government of the non- party Jiří Rusnok , who was close to President Miloš Zeman , but which did not gain the confidence of the House of Representatives. In the early parliamentary elections of 2013 supported by the VV , the VV itself did not run and supported the Úsvit přímé demokracie ( Dawn of Direct Democracy ) party of the entrepreneur and Senator Tomio Okamura .
literature
- Vlastimil Havlík & Vít Hloušek: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Story of the Populist Public Affairs Party in the Czech Republic , in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 15 (2014), No. 4, pp. 552-570 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ aplikace.mvcr.cz , entry at the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Czech, accessed on May 12, 2010
- ↑ [1] , report in the online portal www.idnes.cz, Czech, accessed on February 17, 2013
- ↑ http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/tagesecho/mit-zaehneknirschen-die-regierungskrise-scheint-zunaechst-beigelegt
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 6, 2013 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. , Report in the Prager Zeitung on September 3, 2013
