Party for the Open Society
The Party for the Open Society (Czech: Strana pro otevřenou společnost, SOS) is a minor social liberal political party in the Czech Republic.
The party origins were in the Civic Movement (Czech: Občanské Hnutí), a liberal group founded in 1991 within Civic Forum. In 1993 the party was renamed the Free Democrats (Czech: Svobodní Demokraté). After poor results in local elections in 1994, the party merged with the Liberal National Social Party (LSNS) to become the Free Democrats-Liberal National Social Party (Czech: Svobodní Demokraté - Liberální strana národně sociální). The merged party again returned poor results in parliamentary elections in 1996, and amid political disagreements over the nationalist views of ex-members of the LSNS, many Free Democrats left the party in 1997, forming the Party for the Open Society in 1998, with 120-150 members.
The party's political programme places highest importance on sustainable development. At the 2006 parliamentary elections, several SOS members were candidates on Green Party lists, but none were elected. In 2006 the SOS had local organisations in four of 13 regions in the Czech Republic, and in Prague. SOS did not stand any candidates in the 2010 parliamentary elections, instead urging its supporters once again to support the Green Party.
SOS also supports the Club of Committed Non-Party Members and other liberal parties. The independent senator Soňa Paukrtová was nominated for re-election by SOS, and was re-elected on 28 October 2006.
See also
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External links
- Party website (in Czech)
- Details about cooperation with Greens (in Czech)
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- Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the respective chambers.
2021 (200 seats)
- SPOLU (71)
- ANO 2011 (71)
- PirStan (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (20)
- Independents (1)
2022 (81 seats)
- ODS-TOP 09 (35)
- Civic Democratic Party (23)
- TOP 09 (6)
- Independents (2)
- Svobodní (1)
- Mayors for the Liberec Region (1)
- ProMOST (1)
- Tábor 2020 (1)
- STAN (19)
- Mayors and Independents (15)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (2)
- Ostravak (1)
- Marek Hilšer for Senate (1)
- KDU-ČSL (12)
- ForRegion (6)
- ANO 2011 (5)
- Social Democracy (1)
- SEN 21-Pirates (6)
- SEN 21 (3)
- Czech Pirate Party (2)
- Hradec Králové Democratic Club (1)
- Independents (2)
- Independents (1)
2019 (21 seats)
- ANO 2011 (5)
- Civic Democratic Party (4)
- Czech Pirate Party (3)
- TOP 09+Mayors and Independents (3)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (1)
- KDU-ČSL (2)
- Communist Party (1)
- Social Democracy (1)
2020 (675 seats)
- ANO 2011 (178)
- Civic Democratic Party (99)
- Czech Pirate Party (99)
- Mayors and Independents (69)
- KDU-ČSL (53)
- Social Democracy (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (35)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (22)
- TOP 09 (19)
- Communist Party (13)
- Green Party (6)
- SNK European Democrats (5)
- Others (40)
- Agrarian Democratic Party
- Alliance for the Future
- Alliance of National Forces
- Club of Committed Non-Party Members
- Conservative Party
- Czech National Social Party
- Czech Sovereignty
- Democratic Party of Greens
- Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic
- Independents
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- Law, Respect, Expertise
- The Left
- Liberal-Environmental Party
- Moravané
- Moravian Land Movement
- National Democracy
- Order of the Nation
- Party of Common Sense
- Přísaha
- Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia
- Right Bloc
- Swiss Democracy
- United Democrats - Association of Independents
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- Volt Czech Republic
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