Civic Forum

The Občanské fórum (OF; German: Citizens' Forum ) was a political movement that arose 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.

Inspired by the New Forum of the GDR, the OF- founder and journalist Jan Urban fórum has introduced the term, Václav Havel občanské the adjective.

Later a part of the movement developed into a center-right party. The first and last president of the OF was from October 17, 1990, Václav Klaus, later Chairman of the ODS.

In Slovakia, at that time one of the two republics of Czechoslovakia / CSFR, played the Verejnosť proti násiliu (VPN; German: Public Against Violence ) a similar role.

Parties that followed OF

  • Občanská demokratická aliance ( German: Civic Democratic Alliance) - In 1990, the members of this party stand still in candidate elections to the original version, later they occur even as a party.
  • Občanská demokratická strana ( German: Civic Democratic Party ) - This party was founded in 1991 after the final dissolution of the original version, first president Václav Klaus.
  • Občanské hnutí ( German: Citizens' Movement ) - Also this party was founded in 1991 after the final dissolution of the original version, called later " Svobodní demokraté " ( German: Free Democrats ) and combined later with the " Liberální strana národné sociální " ( German: National Socialist or National Socialists, the word has a different connotation than in the Czech Germans. The literal translation is "national - social liberal party ").
  • Strana per otevřenou společnost ( German: Party for an open society ) - founded on 4 April 1998

Credentials

  • Czech movement
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