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1.3 Political parties created in the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1944–1948) 1.4 Political parties in Communist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) 1.5 Political parties created in the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1989–1992)
There are currently seven parties in the Chamber of Deputies – ANO 2011, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Mayors and Independents (STAN), the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL), Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), TOP 09 and the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates).
Defunct agrarian political parties in Czechoslovakia (11 P) I. Interwar minority parties in Czechoslovakia (27 P) K. KDU-ČSL (3 C, 27 P) P.
Czechoslovakia continued to demonstrate subservience to the policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in domestic and especially in foreign affairs. [2] Czechoslovakia's political alignment with the Soviet Union began during World War II. In 1945, it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated Prague from the Nazis. [3]
The Czechoslovak National Assembly consisted of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, both elected through universal suffrage. During the First Republic, many political parties struggled for political influence and only once did a single party muster a quarter of the national vote. Parties were generally set up along ethnic lines.
The Czech Republic has a multi-party system. Between 1993 and 2013, the two largest political parties were the centre-left Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and centre-right Civic Democratic Party (ODS). This changed in early 2014, with the rise of a new major political party ANO 2011, which has since led two cabinets.
After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, political parties suspended the democratic elements of elections. In the 1938 elections in Slovakia, parties not affiliated with the united list of Hlinka's Slovak People's Party were suspended. The 1938 elections took the form of referendum with the question "Do you want a new, free ...
Czech: 1968 1973: 30 March 1968 29 May 1975 7 years, 60 days KSČ: 8 Gustáv Husák (1913–1991) Slovak: 1975 1980 1985: 29 May 1975 10 December 1989 14 years, 195 days KSČ: Post–Communist Era (1989–1992) Official names: Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1989–1990), Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1990–1992) 9 Václav Havel (1936 ...