Spolu (Czech Republic)

Spolu (lit. 'Together') is a Czech centre-right political alliance formed for the 2021 legislative election, composed of the Civic Democratic Party, KDU-ČSL, and TOP 09. As of the 2021 Czech election it governs the Czech Republic in a coalition with the Pirates and Mayors alliance.

This article is about the Czech electoral alliance. For the Slovak party formerly known as Spolu, see Democrats (Slovakia).

Spolu
English name	Together
Leader	Petr Fiala[1]
Founded	2020
Ideology	Liberal conservatism Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right[2]
Colours	Blue
Member parties	ODS KDU–ČSL TOP 09
Chamber of Deputies	71 / 200
Senate	38 / 81
European Parliament	6 / 21
Regional councils	181 / 675
Governors of the regions	2 / 13
Local councils	5,974 / 61,780
Prague City Assembly	19 / 65
Website
https://www.spolu21.cz/
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History

Following the 2020 regional elections, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 began negotiations about a potential centre-right electoral alliance for the 2021 legislative election.^[3]

The ODS leadership agreed to form an alliance with the other parties on 25 October 2020.^[4] Two days later party leaders Petr Fiala, Marian Jurečka and Markéta Pekarová Adamová signed a memorandum and announced that ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 would form an electoral alliance for the next legislative election, with ODS leader Fiala as the alliance's candidate for prime minister.^[5] On 11 November 2020, the parties agreed that ODS would nominate the leaders of the election lists in nine regions, KDU-ČSL in three regions, and TOP 09 in two regions.^[6] The alliance was known by media as the Three Coalition, but on 9 December 2020 the parties announced that they would run under the name Spolu (lit. 'Together').^[7]

Spolu introduced its electoral programme and campaign on 9 December 2020.^[8] Ahead of the election, opinion polls suggested that ANO would win, but in an electoral upset Spolu won the highest number of votes, and opposition parties won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.^[9] The opposition parties signed a memorandum agreeing to nominate Spolu leader Petr Fiala for the position of prime minister.^[10] On 9 November, President Miloš Zeman formally asked Fiala to form a new government.^[11] On 17 November 2021, Fiala introduced Zeman to his proposed cabinet and Zeman agreed to appoint Fiala as the new prime minister on 26 November 2021.^[12]

In November 2021, Fiala said he would like to continue with the Spolu coalition into the 2022 Senate and municipal elections.^[13] On 14 June 2022, Spolu announced that the coalition would nominate 19 candidates in the senate elections.^[14] Spolu also collaborated in municipal elections in some cities and towns, including Prague, Ostrava and Plzeň.^[15]

In the 2023 Czech presidential election, Spolu endorsed three candidates: Petr Pavel, Danuše Nerudová, and Pavel Fischer.^[16]

On 28 October 2024, party leaders signed a memorandum and announced that ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 would continue as an electoral alliance for the next legislative election.^[17]

Composition

Name		Ideology	Leader/Leaders	MPs	Senators	MEPs
	Civic Democratic Party	Liberal conservatism	Petr Fiala	34 / 200	23 / 81	4 / 21
	KDU-ČSL	Christian democracy	Marian Jurečka	23 / 200	12 / 81	2 / 21
	TOP 09	Liberal conservatism	Markéta Pekarová Adamová	14 / 200	6 / 81	2 / 21

Regional leaders in the 2021 election

Region	Leader[6]			Election result
	Name		Party	Votes	Seats
Prague		Markéta Pekarová Adamová	TOP 09	40.0%	11 / 23
Central Bohemian		Jan Skopeček	ODS	28.7%	10 / 26
South Bohemian		Jan Bauer [cs]	ODS	29.1%	5 / 13
Plzeň		Martin Baxa	ODS	26.6%	4 / 11
Karlovy Vary		Jan Bureš	ODS	20.2%	1 / 5
Ústí nad Labem		Karel Krejza [cs]	ODS	19.8%	3 / 14
Liberec		Petr Beitl [cs]	ODS	22.8%	2 / 8
Hradec Králové		Ivan Adamec [cs]	ODS	28.6%	4 / 11
Pardubice		Pavel Svoboda	TOP 09	28.5%	4 / 10
Vysočina		Vít Kaňkovský	KDU-ČSL	28.0%	4 / 10
South Moravian		Petr Fiala	ODS	30.0%	9 / 23
Olomouc		Marian Jurečka	KDU-ČSL	24.5%	4 / 12
Zlín		Ondřej Benešík	KDU-ČSL	27.8%	4 / 12
Moravian-Silesian		Zbyněk Stanjura	ODS	20.6%	6 / 22

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

Year	Leader	Vote	Vote %	Seats	+/-	Place	Position
2021	Petr Fiala	1,493,905	27.79	71 / 200	29	1st	Government

Senate

Election	Candidates	First round				Second round			Seats	Total Seats	Notes
		Votes	%	Runners-up	Place*	Votes	%	Place*
2022	31	360,539	32.40	19 / 27	1st	233,294	47.80	1st	19 / 27	42 / 81	Including Tábor 2020 candidate who ran under Spolu.

Presidential

Election	Candidate		First round result			Second round result
			Votes	%	Result	Votes	%	Result
2023[a]		Petr Pavel	1,975,056	35.40	1st place	3,358,926	58.33	Won
		Danuše Nerudová	777,080	13.93	3rd place	supported Petr Pavel
		Pavel Fischer	376,705	6.75	4th place	supported Petr Pavel

1. The coalition supported 3 independent candidates for this election.

European Parliament

Election	List leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	EP Group
2024	Alexandr Vondra	661,250	22.25 (#2)	6 / 21	New	ECR / EPP

Local election

Year	Vote	Vote %	Place	Seats
2022	13,362,433	21.76	1st	5,974 / 61,780

Prague municipal elections

Year	Leader	Vote	Vote %	Seats	+/−	Place	Position
2022	Bohuslav Svoboda	5,828,523	24.7	19 / 65	4	1st	Coalition

References

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