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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox political party Шаблон:Communist parties Шаблон:Politics of the Czech Republic The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Шаблон:Lang-cs, KSČM) is a communist partyШаблон:Sfn in the Czech Republic.[1] As of 2022, KSČM has a membership of 20,450,[2] and is a member party of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL in the European Parliament,[3] and an observer member of the European Left Party.[4] Sources variously describe the party as either left-wing[5][6] or far-left[7][8] on the political spectrum. It is one of the few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe to have not dropped the Communist title from its name, although it has changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989.Шаблон:Sfn[9]

For most of the first two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the party was politically isolated and accused of extremism, but it has moved closer to the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).[9] After the 2012 Czech regional elections, KSČM began governing in coalition with the ČSSD in 10 regions.[10] It has never been part of a governing coalition in the executive branch but provided parliamentary support to Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet until April 2021. The party's youth organization was banned from 2006 to 2010,[9][11] and there have been calls from other parties to outlaw the main party.[12] Until 2013, it was the only political party in the Czech Republic printing its own newspaper, called Haló noviny.[13] The party's two cherry logo comes from the song Le Temps des cerises, a revolutionary song associated with the Paris Commune.[14]

History

The party was formed in 1989 by a congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), which decided to create a party for the territories of Bohemia and Moravia (including Czech Silesia), the areas that were to become the Czech Republic. The new party's organization was significantly more democratic and decentralized than the previous party, and gave local district branches of the party significant autonomy.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1990, KSČ was reorganized as a federation of KSČM and the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS). Later, KSS changed its name to the Party of the Democratic Left, and the federation dissolved in 1992. During the party's first congress, held in Olomouc in October 1990, party leader Jiří Svoboda attempted to reform the party into a democratic socialist one, proposing a democratic socialist program and changing the name to the transitional Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: Party of Democratic Socialism.Шаблон:Sfn Svoboda had to balance the criticisms of older, conservative communists, who made up a majority of the party's members, with the demands of an increasingly large and moderate bloc of members, led primarily by a group of young KSČM parliamentarians called the Democratic Left, who demanded the immediate social democratization of the party. Delegates approved the new program but rejected the name change.Шаблон:Sfn

During 1991 and 1992, factional tensions increased, with the party's conservative, anti-revisionist wing increasingly vocal in criticizing Svoboda. There was an increase in popularity of the anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist clubs amongst rank-and-file party members. On the party's other wing, the Democratic Left became increasingly critical of the slow pace of the reforms and began demanding a referendum of members to change the name. In December 1991, the Democratic Left split off and formed the short-lived Party of Democratic Labour. The referendum on changing the name was held in 1992, with 75.94% voting not to change the name.Шаблон:Sfn

The party's second congress, held in Kladno in December 1992, showed the increasing popularity of the party's anti-revisionist wing. It passed resolutions reinterpreting the 1990 program as a "starting point" for KSČM, rather than a definitive statement of a post-communist program. Svoboda, who was hospitalized due to an attack by an anti-communist, could not attend the congress but was nevertheless overwhelmingly re-elected.Шаблон:Sfn After the party's second congress in 1992, several groups split away. A group of post-communist delegates split off and merged with the Party of Democratic Labour to form the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL). Several independent left-wing members who had participated with KSČM in the 1992 electoral pact, which was called the Left Bloc, left the party to form the Left Bloc Party.Шаблон:Sfn Both groups eventually merged into the Party of Democratic Socialism.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1993, Svoboda attempted to expel the members of the "For Socialism" platform, a group in the party that wanted a restoration of the pre-1989 Communist regime;Шаблон:Sfn however, with only the lukewarm support of KSČM's central committee, he briefly resigned. He withdrew his resignation after the central committee agreed to move the party's next congress forward to June 1993 to resolve the issues of its name and ideology.Шаблон:Sfn At the 1993 congress, held in Prostějov, Svoboda's proposals were overwhelmingly rejected by two-thirds majorities. Svoboda did not seek re-election as chairman, and neocommunist Miroslav Grebeníček was elected chairman. Grebeníček and his supporters were critical of what they termed the inadequacies of the pre-1989 regime but supported the retention of the party's communist character and program. The members of the "For Socialism" platform were expelled at the congress, with the existence of platforms in the party being banned altogether, on the grounds that they gave too much influence to minority groups. Svoboda left the party.Шаблон:Sfn

The expelled members of "For Socialism" formed the Party of Czechoslovak Communists, later renamed the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, which was led by Miroslav Štěpán.Шаблон:Sfn KSČM refuses to work with this group. The party was left on the sidelines for most of the first decade of the Czech Republic's existence. Václav Havel suspected KSČM was still an unreconstructed neo-Stalinist party and prevented it from having any influence during his presidency; however, the party provided the one-vote margin that elected Havel's successor Václav Klaus as president.[15] After a long-running battle with the Ministry of the Interior, the Communist Youth Union led by Milan Krajča, was dissolved in 2006 for allegedly endorsing in its program the replacement of private with collective ownership of the means of production.[11] The decision met with international protests.[16]

In November 2008, the Czech Senate asked the Supreme Administrative Court to dissolve KSČM because of its political program, which the Senate argued contradicted the Constitution of the Czech Republic. 30 out of the 38 senators who were present agreed to this request, and expressed the view that the party's program did not reject violence as a means of attaining power and adopted The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx;[17] however, this was only a symbolic gesture, as according to the constitution only the cabinet may file a petition to the Supreme Administrative Court to dissolve a political party. For the first two decades after the end of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the party was politically isolated. After the 2012 Czech regional elections, it started participating in coalitions with the Czech Social Democratic Party, forming part of the ruling coalition in 10 out of 13 regions.[10] From 2018 to 2021, KSČM provided parliamentary support to Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet.[18][19]

After the party's poor performance in the 2021 Czech legislative election, in which KSČM failed to reach the 5% voting threshold and was excluded from representation in parliament for the first time in its history, Filip resigned as leader of the party.[20] On 23 October 2021, Member of European Parliament Kateřina Konečná was elected as leader.[21]

Ideology

As a communist party and the successor of the former ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia,Шаблон:Sfn its party platform promotes anti-capitalism[22] and socialism[23] through a Marxist lens.[24] It holds Eurosceptic views in regards to the European Union.[25][26][27]

Leaders

# Name
(Born–Died)
Portrait Term of Office
align=center style="background: Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"| 1 Jiří Machalík
(1945–2014)
Файл:Jiří Machalík.jpg 31 March 1990 13 October 1990
align=center style="background: Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"| 2 Jiří Svoboda
(b. 1945)
Файл:Jiří Svoboda directing Jan Hus (34).jpg 13 October 1990 25 June 1993
align=center style="background: Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"| 3 Miroslav Grebeníček
(b. 1947)
Файл:Miroslav Grebeníček (Portrait).jpg 25 June 1993 1 October 2005
align=center style="background: Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"| 4 Vojtěch Filip
(b. 1955)
Файл:Vojtěch Filip 2013 (cropped).JPG 1 October 2005 9 October 2021
align=center style="background: Шаблон:Party color; color:white;"| 5 Kateřina Konečná
(b. 1981)
Файл:Portrét – Kateřina Konečná.jpg 23 October 2021 present

Electoral results

KSČM's strongest bases of support are in the regions hit by deindustrialization, particularly in the Karlovy Vary and Ústí nad Labem regions. In 2012, the party won a regional election for the first time in Ústí nad Labem. Its regional leader Oldřich Bubeníček subsequently became the first communist regional governor in the history of Czech Republic.[28] The party is stronger among older than younger voters, with the majority of its membership over 60.Шаблон:Sfn The party is also stronger in small and medium-sized towns than in big cities.Шаблон:Sfn

Parliament

Файл:Demonstrace proti Ondráčkovi, Praha, Václavské náměstí 01.jpg
A protest against the election of Zdeněk Ondráček
Файл:May Day Rally in Brno 01.JPG
A May Day meeting in Brno organized by the party
Файл:Vojtech Filip.jpg
Former party leader Vojtěch Filip

Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Year Leader Votes % Seats ± Place Position
1990 Jiří Machalík 954,690 13.2 Шаблон:Composition bar New 2nd Opposition
1992 Jiří Svoboda 909,490 14.0Шаблон:Efn Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 2 2nd Opposition
1996 Miroslav Grebeníček 626,136 10.3 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 13 3rd Opposition
1998 Miroslav Grebeníček 658,550 11.0 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 2 3rd Opposition
2002 Miroslav Grebeníček 882,653 18.5 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 17 3rd Opposition
2006 Vojtěch Filip 685,328 12.8 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 15 3rd Opposition
2010 Vojtěch Filip 589,765 11.3 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0 4th Opposition
2013 Vojtěch Filip 741,044 14.9 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 7 3rd Opposition
2017 Vojtěch Filip 393,100 7.8 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 18 5th Шаблон:Partial
2021 Vojtěch Filip 193,817 3.6 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 15 7th No seats
Notes

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Senate

Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Year First round Second round No. of seats won No. of
overall seats won
±
Votes % Votes %
1996 393,494 14.3 45,304 2.0 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar New
1998 159,123 16.5 31,097 5.8 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 2
2000 152,934 17.8 73,372 13.0 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2002 110,171 16.5 57,434 7.0 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0
2004 125,892 17.4 65,136 13.6 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2006 134,863 12.7 26,001 4.5 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0
2008 147,186 14.1 did not make it did not make it Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 1
2010 117,374 10.2 did not make it did not make it Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2012 153,335 17.4 79,663 15.5 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0
2014 99,973 9.74 did not make it did not make it Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2016 83,741 9.50 5,737 1.35 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0
2018 80,371 7.38 3,578 0.86 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2020 40,994 4.11 did not make it did not make it Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0
2022 17,612 1.6 did not make it did not make it Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Steady 0

European Parliament

European Parliament
Year Votes % Seats ±
2004 472,862 20.3 Шаблон:Composition bar New
2009 334,577 14.2 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 2
2014 166,478 11.0 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 1
2019 164,624 6.9 Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 2

Local councils

Year Votes % Seats
1994 17,413,545 13.6 Шаблон:Composition bar
1998 10,703,975 13.7 Шаблон:Composition bar
2002 11 696 976 14.5 Шаблон:Composition bar
2006 11,730,243 10.8 Шаблон:Composition bar
2010 8,628,685 9.6 Шаблон:Composition bar
2014 7,730,503 7.8 Шаблон:Composition bar
2018 5,416,907 4.9 Шаблон:Composition bar
2022 Шаблон:Composition bar

Regional councils

Year Votes % Seats ± Place
2000 496,688 21.1 Шаблон:Composition bar New 3rd
2004 416,807 Шаблон:Decrease 19.7 Шаблон:Decrease Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 2nd
2008 438,024 Шаблон:Increase 15.0 Шаблон:Decrease Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 3rd
2012 538,953 Шаблон:Increase 20.4 Шаблон:Increase Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Increase 2nd
2016 267,047 Шаблон:Decrease 10.6 Шаблон:Decrease Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 3rd
2020 131,770 Шаблон:Decrease 4.8 Шаблон:Decrease Шаблон:Composition bar Шаблон:Decrease 9th

References

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Bibliography

Further reading

External links

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