Civic Democratic Alliance
Občanská demokratická aliance (ODA ), German Democratic Citizens Alliance, was a liberal- conservative party in the Czech Republic, which consisted 1989-2007.
History
Was out of circles the Czechoslovak dissident movement of the 1980s out after the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, the founding of the Občanská demokratická aliance. In the elections of 1990, the members of the ODA as a candidate still in the frame of the Civic Forum ( Občanské fórum ). Only in 1992 she performed as an independent party.
The ODA was involved with ministers of the governments of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus of 1992-1998 and in the caretaker cabinet of Tošovský 1998. Vladimír Dlouhy was from 1989 to 1992 Minister of Economic Affairs of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic, and from 1992 to 1996 Czech Industry and Trade Minister, his successor, Karel Kühnl, who served from 1997 to 1998, was until 1998 the ODA to. After 1998, the party involved in the so-called four-party coalition, which was not involved in the government.
Her achievements reached the ODA in the 1990s. For the election of the Czech National Council in 1992, she received 5.9 % of the vote and 14 seats, but they missed with 4.98 % and 4.08% of the catchment in both chambers of the then existing Parliament of the CSFR, the 31 December 1992 the resolution of the general government stopped its activity. 1996 brought the party in the elections to have emerged from the Czech National Poslanecká sněmovna ( House of Representatives) 6.4% of the vote and 13 seats. However, in the early elections in 1998, it reached no mandate in the House of Representatives.
Since the breakup of the coalition government Klaus ODA was increasingly preoccupied by internal party squabbles in 1997 with himself and gradually lost their influence. In 1997, the co-founder Ivan Masek left the party. In 1998, the ODA four seats in the Senate, in the elections of 2000 and 2004 she received each nor a mandate.
After the 1998 parliamentary elections, the ODA formed together with three other parties of the center, KDU- CSL and the U.S. parties and DEU, the later the US-DEU merged the so-called four-party coalition. This alliance should serve as an alternative offer for cooperation between the two major parties CSSD and ODS in the House with the so-called opposition and the contract was phased - eg 2000 in the election of representatives of the Czech regions ( Kraj ) relatively successful. The previous failures of ODA in the elections, however, led to indebtedness of ODA and strife within the four-party coalition. Politicians such as Václav Jehlička and Vlasta Parkanová changed for KDU- CSL, Jiri Pospisil for ODS. In 2002, the KDU- CSL announced the debt of 70 million Czech crowns ODA to working to initiate a change of course for CSSD back. The candidates of ODA were then removed from the common list of candidates for the parliamentary elections in 2002 again, which meant the de facto end of the four-party coalition. The ODA reached in elections to the House of Representatives in 2002, only 0.5 % of the vote and failed significantly to the re-entry into the House of Representatives.
In the elections to the European Parliament, the ODA in 2004 came as a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party svobody with the parties Cesta změny, Unie - demokratická unie and Liberální reformní strana in electoral alliance Unie liberálních domokratů (Union of Liberal Democrats ) and remained with 1, 7% of the vote without a mandate.
Finally, the ODA was increasingly absorbed into insignificance and presented with Karel Schwarzenberg only a single deputies in the Senate. On 1 December 2007, the party with effect from 31 December 2007 adopted its own resolution. Schwarzenberg participated in 2009 at the founding of the party TOP 09 and became its chairman.