Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
The Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy ( German: Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, KSČM ) is a Czech political party. The chairman of the party is Vojtěch Filip. In the European Left Party, the KSČM has observer status.
History
The KSČM was founded on 31 March 1990 as a successor party to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC ).
The decision to transform the State party and to the creation of two separate parties was during the extraordinary meeting on 20 December 1989 like. As represented the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a reorganization was necessary after the disintegration of Czechoslovakia.
Presence
The party was one of 2013 about 51,000 members. In the elections for the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in June 2002, she received 18.5 % of the vote, its best result since the introduction of free, multiparty elections in 1990. Thus it was with 41 members, the third largest party in Parliament. In the European elections 2004, she was with 6 of the 24 seats the second largest party in the Czech Republic. In the parliamentary election in the summer of 2006, the KSČM but heavy losses had to plug it in and lost about a third of all votes and MPs mandates.
Of all the parties in the Czech Republic the KSČM leftmost. You will lay claim to represent the interests of the most vulnerable within the meaning of Socialism or a left politics and advocates for social justice and equal distribution of wealth. The KSČM advocates for a stronger involvement of the state in the economy. Your party program provides a socialization of key segments of the economy ( banking, transport, telecommunications, energy, mining, etc.). The party is an opponent of the Czech NATO membership and understands the Allied intervention in the former Yugoslavia as an act of aggression. The EU membership of the Czech Republic is controversial within the party to this day.
The party maintained a youth organization under the chairmanship of Milan Krajča, the Communist Union of Youth ( KSM), who was banned on 2 October 2006 by the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. In early November of the same year the House of Lords decided the establishment of a board of examiners to verify the fidelity of the Constitution KSČM.
The party is the owner of the publishing house of the Czech daily Haló noviny.
After the elections to the parliaments of the regions of the Czech Republic on 17-18. October 2008 was the KSČM as a junior partner with the CSSD in the regions Carlsbad Region and Moravian-Silesian Region Government Coalitions and tolerates in the regions of western Bohemia, Středočeský kraj Kraj Highlands and the CSSD minority government. So the party is involved again in government responsibility for the first time since 1989 in the Czech Republic on the second administrative level. This strong position was the KSCM in the regional elections on 12-13. October 2012 to expand. She won in all regions and was clearly added in the Ústí nad Labem and Karlovy Vary even the strongest force. In the Ústí nad Labem region since 1990, the party since these elections with Oldrich Bubeníček first time HEJTMAN.
In the early elections to the House of Representatives on 26 October 2013, the KSČM grew slightly ( 3.64% ) and came up with 14.91 % of the vote and 33 seats. In the Senate, was represented in 2013 with two of 81 senators with the two senators from the party of civil rights - have joined forces Zeman's people and the senator of the regional party Severočeši.cz to a common fraction.
Election results
House of Representatives elections
Senate elections
Regional elections
Local elections
In the local elections in November 2002, according to the KSCM 5799 KSCM City Council candidates, 374 mayors were in the elections in October 2006, there were 4,268 city councils and 284 mayors.