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KDU-ČSL
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KDU-ČSL (In Czech, the initials of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party;[12] Czech: Křesťanská a demokratická unie – Československá strana lidová), often shortened to lidovci ('the populars'), is a Christian-democratic[2][3] political party in the Czech Republic. The party has taken part in almost every Czech government since 1990. In the June 2006 legislative election, the party won 7.2% of the vote and 13 out of 200 seats; but in the 2010 election, its vote share dropped to 4.4% and they lost all of its seats. The party regained its parliamentary standing in the 2013 legislative election, winning 14 seats in the new parliament,[13] thereby becoming the first party ever to return to the Chamber of Deputies after previously dropping out.
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party Křesťanská a demokratická unie – Československá strana lidová | |
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Abbreviation | Lidovci |
Leader | Marian Jurečka |
Deputy Leaders | Šárka Jelínková Jan Bartošek Petr Hladík Lukáš Curylo Ondřej Benešík Tom Philipp |
Secretary General | Pavel Hořava |
Chamber of Deputies Leader | Jan Bartošek |
Senate Leader | Šárka Jelínková |
MEP Leader | Tomáš Zdechovský |
Founder | Jan Šrámek |
Founded | 3 January 1919; 105 years ago (1919-01-03) |
Merger of | MSKSSM, KNKSM, ČKSSKČ, KNKSČ, KSL |
Headquarters | Palác Charitas, Karlovo náměstí 5, Prague |
Newspaper | Nový Hlas |
Think tank | Institute for Christian Democratic Politics |
Youth wing | Young Populars |
Women's wing | Women's Association |
Membership | 19,116[1] |
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Political position | Centre[7] to centre-right[10] |
National affiliation | SPOLU |
European affiliation | European People's Party |
European Parliament group | European People's Party |
International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
Colors | Yellow Blue[11] |
Chamber of Deputies | 23 / 200 |
Senate | 12 / 81 |
European Parliament | 1 / 21 |
Regional councils | 53 / 675 |
Governors of the regions | 1 / 13 |
Local councils | 4,066 / 62,178 |
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