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  Czech Social Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Czech Social Democratic Party (Czech: Česká strana sociálně demokratická or ČSSD) is the Social Democratic political party in the Czech Republic.
After 1989, the party was unable to form the government until the one of 1998, under the leadership of Miloš Zeman.
It won the elections of 2002 with 70 of 200 representatives in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czech_Social_Democratic_Party   (433 words)

  
 Czech Elections Result in Deadlock
The chairman of the party is Jirzi Paroubek, who has been holding this post and the post of the prime minister after the resignation of his predecessor Stanislav Gross in 2005 as a result of a corruption scandal.
This party is the heiress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia that has arisen in 1921 on the basis of the left-radical wing of the CSDP, and was at power between 1948 and 1989.
The basic electorate of the party is formed with the weakest layers of the population, first of all, representatives of the senior generation.
www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=903   (1546 words)

  
 Major Czech Political Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) is the descendent of the Social Democratic party formed in 1878 and is the only pre-communist social democratic party in Eastern Europe to have successfully regained its reputation.
In 1990, the Social Democrats failed to reach the five percent threshold and thus, was not represented in Parliament.
The Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) was also founded in 1989 and achieved parliamentary representation until 1998, when it decided to refrain from participating in elections to prevent fragmentation of the democratic right, throwing its constituents to the ODS and the Freedom Union.
www.unc.edu /courses/2002spring/rues/230/001/czech/czepar.html   (560 words)

  
 Czech Republic (04/06)
The Czechs lost their national independence to the Hapsburgs Empire in 1620 at the Battle of White Mountain and for the next 300 years were ruled by the Austrian Monarchy.
The center-left Social Democrats (CSSD) emerged in first place in the 2002 elections and were able to form a government with a narrow parliamentary majority in a left-center-right three-party coalition.
The Czech Republic is gradually reducing its dependence on highly polluting low-grade brown coal as a source of energy, in part because of EU environmental requirements.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3237.htm   (4983 words)

  
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Furthermore, in 1993 the Czech party split again when the reformists resigned from the doctrinaire parent party and eventually the Slovak party changed its name to the Party of the Democratic Left.
The party was fairly strong as it ruled from 1990 to 1998 in Slovakia.
The opposing Czech party, the Czech Social Democratic party concentrated on education, health, housing, and environmental reforms.
www.unc.edu /~pineda/postcommczech.html   (927 words)

  
 Social Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a broader list of parties considered to follow the principles of social democracy, see List of social democratic parties.
The name Social Democratic Party has been used by a large number of parties in various countries around the world.
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party with its Bolshevik and Menshevik factions
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party   (214 words)

  
 ČSSD: Zákl. údaje v angličtině - Czech Social Democratic Party
The party is composed by of 81 district branches, 14 regional organisations.
This was negotiated between the social democrats and Civic Democratic Party after the elections, when became clear that it was beyond the capacity of right spectre to run the country.
The Treaty of accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union  was signed in Athens on 16th April 2003 and the accession of the Czech Republic was confirmed by referendum, held on 13th and 14th June 2003.
www.socdem.cz /vismo/dokumenty2.asp?u=422010&id_org=422010&id=34972&p1=5981&p2=0   (1607 words)

  
 How power breaks political parties: Czech politics since 1998
Unlike the social democratic parties in Poland and Hungary, the Czech Social Democratic Party is not a "successor party", it is not a reconstructed, former totalitarian communist party.
Czech TV published allegations that Miloš Zeman and some other leaders of the Social Democratic Party had met a group of Czech emigrés in Switzerland and promised them, in return for possible funding, some influence in their future social democratic government.
The Social Democrats in government have often taken decisions which are in conflict with their political programme, without being ready to resign their government posts due to the unacceptability of political compromises, forced upon them.
www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/Ramkema.htm   (5384 words)

  
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He joined the CSSD (Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party as it then was) and was re-elected to the Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the elections held that year.
Without party affiliation before 1989, is one of the founding members of the CSSD Social Democratic Party, serving successively since 1996 as its spokesman for labour and social affairs, chairman of its regional organization in South Bohemia, and statutory Vice-Chairman of the CSSD.
In 1992 was elected to the Czech National Council and, in the general election of 1996, to the Chamber of Deputies of the CR Parliament where he has been concerned mainly with with the problems of education, the school system and culture.
www.chez.com /vipsgov/czech.htm   (3367 words)

  
 Czech Republic - print
CSDP received the largest share of votes in parliamentary elections held on June 14-15, with 30.2 percent, giving it 70 seats in the 200-member lower house of parliament.
The Four Party Coalition, to which the present Coalition is the successor (see the previous EECR Update), first entered the political scene with a major victory in the 2000 Senate elections.
Party chairman Vaclav Klaus did not resign following the elections, at first stating that he would do so at a national party conference to be held in September, ahead of the November Senate and local elections.
www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11num3/constitutionwatch/czech_print.html   (1934 words)

  
 East European Constitutional Review
This allows the two parties to differ on substantive matters of policy, something which is important to both sides in their attempts to differentiate and clarify their political profiles.
During the Czechs’ previous democratic period, all major parties participated in a series of broad coalition governments, dividing between them the various ministries, and rendering the opposition minuscule and marginal.
Meanwhile, as the Czech economy continues to muddle through the turmoil of the past year, and the political situation seems increasingly uncertain, the EU has issued warnings that accession will depend on the ability of applicant countries to show that they have something to contribute to the EU.
www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num3/constitutionwatch/czech.html   (1678 words)

  
 eubfn.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was re-elected again as a member on behalf of the CSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party) in 1998 and 2002.
From May 2001 Mr Sobotka became the chairman of the CSSD party Deputies Club in the Chamber of Deputies and also the Chairman of the Temporary Board of the chamber of Deputies for Pension Reform (2001).
Mr Sobotka has been a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party since 1989, in July 2002 he became finance minister for the Czech Republic and in 2003 was appointed deputy Prime Minister in Stanislav Gross government, a position he holds today.
www.eubfn.com /arts/gfm-cz.htm   (198 words)

  
 CER | The Czech Republic: The year 2000 in review
Czech media attention, however, focused primarily on the Czech Republic falling behind Poland, Hungary and Estonia in an EU ranking of the applicant countries' economic readiness to join the Union.
At the heart of the conflict is the Czech nuclear power plant at Temelín which was activated on 10 October in the face of protests from the Austrian government.
Czechs had reason to be proud of their accomplishments when Czech athletes brought home a total of two gold, three silver and three bronze medals.
www.ce-review.org /00/43/roundup43czech.html   (1893 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
Elections to the lower house of the Czech Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, begin at 2:00 PM on June 2 and end at 2:00 PM on June 3.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia is the successor party to the old Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and is the only party in Eastern Europe that did not change its name after the collapse of the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact.
The party has been trying to change its image and attract younger voters, who do not remember the history of the Communist Party, and the older voters whose living conditions have worsend, and who nostalgically recall the times when there were quaranteed jobs, cheap housing and the government supposedly took care of the citizen’s needs.
www.publiuspundit.com /?cat=122   (597 words)

  
 CZECH REPUBLIC: parliamentary elections Poslanecka Snemovna, 2002
Czechs went to the polls on 14 and 15 June 2002 to decide which Government would lead them towards European Union membership, possibly in 2004, and which Parliament would choose the successor to President Vaclav Havel, whose term was due to end in February 2003.
The two main parties in the race were the governing Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) and the main opposition, the centre-right Civic Democratic Party (ODS) of former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus.
During the electoral campaign, both parties focused their programmes on accession to the EU and on promises of strong economic performance.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2083_02.htm   (484 words)

  
 Czech Civic Democrats Surpass 30% Mark: Angus Reid Consultants
The governing Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) is second with 28 per cent, followed by the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) with 15.5 per cent, the Green Party (SZ) with 10.5 per cent, and the Christian and Democratic Union - Czech People’s Party (KDU-CSL) with 5.5 per cent.
Czech parties require at least five per cent of the vote to earn seats under the country’s proportional representation system.
Social Democratic interim leader Stanislav Gross took over, but resigned last year following allegations regarding the origin of funds borrowed to buy an apartment in Prague.
www.angus-reid.com /polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11951   (339 words)

  
 Czech Republic
Since the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the ethnic Slovaks in the Czech Republic (184,000 identified themselves as ‘Slovakian’ in the 2001 census but the actual number is estimated at between 315,000 and 500,000) have had to adapt to their new situation as a minority community.
In May 2001 the interior ministry refused to register the party officially under its new name on the grounds that the NSB was the name of an inter-war Nazi organization in the Netherlands and that some of the NSB’s leaders were associated with the illegal National Alliance.
A poll in May 1999 found that 72 per cent of Czechs did not feel that the idea of building a wall to separate ethnic Czech residents from their Romany neighbours was based on racial hatred; only 28 per cent of respondents felt that it was.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/countries/czechrepublic/czechrepub.htm   (9673 words)

  
 Global Beat: Communist Party Set to Gain Seats in Czech Senate
Czech central bankers are testing the international bond markets, with reported plans for a US$300 million bond issue.
Support for the party is genuine; but communism in the Czech Republic is not fashionable, and is not favored by dispirited youth.
In the Czech Republic, an increase in KSCM senate seats will give the communists more leverage, particularly as their politics are not entirely incompatible with other parties.
www.bu.edu /globalbeat/nato/GIU082799.html   (754 words)

  
 CSSD News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
controversy between the parties, as the leftist Social Democrats (CSSD) of former PM Jiri Paroubek are...
The Social Democrats have emphatically rejected all the allegations and...
Czech KSCM (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia) News
www.einnews.com /czech/newsfeed-cssd   (1137 words)

  
 Salami tactics in Czechoslovakia
Only six political parties were allowed - the parties which had actively resisted the Nazis.
They were the Czech Communist Party (KSC), the Czech Social Democratic Party, the Czech Popular Party (Catholic democrats), the Czech National Socialist Party, the Slovak Communist Party and the Slovak Democratic party (Catholic democrats).
Zdenek Ferlinger, leader of the Czech Social Democratic party, was the Prime Minister.
www.johndclare.net /cold_war6_Czechoslovakia.htm   (1073 words)

  
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The party was forcibly merged with the Communists in 1948, which resulted in the party's leaders forming a party in exile until the 'Velvet Revolution' of 1989.
So while reducing the number of parties that may take a place in parliament may seem a way to create efficiency on the surface, it is also a dangerous formula for backlash outside of the parliament when other people's voices are not being heard.
The party may not now be able to form the kind of government it would like, but if the momentum of successful socialists in other European countries continues, it will certainly bode well for the party's future.
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 Czech Republic Parties
She was leader of the same party in Czechoslovakia 1990-93.
1996-2004 Vice-Chairwoman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) JUDr.
Until her election she was deputy chairperson of the party.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /czech_parties.htm   (523 words)

  
 President of the UN General Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Between 1996 and 2000, he represented the Czech Social Democratic Party as a Senator in the upper House of Parliament.
Kavan represented his party on the Central and East European Committee of the Socialist International -- a worldwide organization of social democratic and labour parties -- of which he was elected Vice-Chairman in 1997.
He was elected to the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party the same year and re-elected in 1999.
www.un.org /ga/president/57/pages/president.html   (982 words)

  
 Karel Škrábek Papers
Czech Social Democratic Party (Česká Strana Sociálně Demokratická ČSSD)
Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republik (Konfederace Politických Vězňů České Republiky KPV)
Books and periodicals collected by Škrábek are transferred to the library of the IISH; posters, photographs and some other visual materials are transferred tot the Sound and Vision Department; the content of the boxes No.115 and 120 are kept in the original order.
www.iisg.nl /archives/nl/files/s/10769209.php   (76 words)

  
 CZECH REPUBLIC: parliamentary elections Poslanecka Snemovna, 1996
Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament on the normal expiry of the members' term of office in the first such poll since the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation and the consequent coming into being of the sovereign Czech Republic on 1 January 1993.
At that time, the former Czech National Council elected in June 1992 was transformed into the national legislature known as the Chamber of Deputies.
For the 200 seats at stake, the centre-right coalition Government headed by Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus (Civic Democratic Party - ODS) was mainly challenged by the Social Democratic Party (CSSD), which had gained in popularity since the 1992 poll.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2083_96.htm   (407 words)

  
 Czech Republic Parliament
Lawyer, 2000-2001 Vice-Chairperson of the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD).
Lawyer, political prisoner during Communist regime, in 1989 member of Civic forum (OF), from 1991 Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and from 1998 Union of Freedom – Democratic Union (US-DEU), 2001-2002 ChairpersonUS-DEU, in 2003 she left Chamber of Deputies because of the birth of her third child, candidate in the Senate election in 2004.
Member of Civic Democratic Party (ODS), from 2002 Vice-Chairperson of ODS and Shadow Minister of Culture of the ODS.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Czech_Parliament.htm   (844 words)

  
 MegaLaw - Czech Republic
Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Obcanská demokratická strana (ODS) - Civic Democratic Party
Krestansko-demokratická unie - Ceskoslovenská strana lidová (KDU-CSL) The Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People’s Party
www.megalaw.com /international/czech.php   (256 words)

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