Freedom Union - Democratic Union
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| Freedom Union - Democratic Union | |
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| Unie svobody-Demokratická unie | |
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| Leader | Jan Hadrava |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Kozí 916/5, Prague |
| Political ideology | Liberalism |
| International affiliation | |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| European Parliament group | EEP |
| Colour(s) | dark green |
| Website | www.unie.cz |
The Freedom Union-Democratic Union (Czech: Unie Svobody - Demokratická unie - abbreviation: US-DEU) is a small, pro-european free market liberal party in the Czech Republic. As of 2006, it doesn't have any seats in the Czech Chamber of Deputies and have 3 senators in "Open Democracy" Caucus in the Senate.
The party was founded in 1998, as a split from the Civic Democratic Party. From 2002 till 2006, it was part of the Czech government, forming a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party and the Czech Social Democratic Party. As a part of government party started to lose members and voters. It suffered defeat in 2004 regional councils and European Parliament elections. In the 2006 legislative election it lost its all seats in the Chamber of Deputies, which led to the resignation of its leader, Pavel Němec. Senator Jan Hadrava was elected as new leader in the party conference in 13 June 2006.
[edit] Election results
- 1998 Chamber of Deputies: 8,6 % - 19 seats
- 1998 Senate: 1 seat
- 2000 Senate: 8 seats
- 2002 Chamber of Deputies: 9 seats (in coalition with KDU-ČSL 14,3 %)
- 2002 Senate: 1 seat
- 2004 Senate: 1 seat
- 2004 European Parliament: no seats (as part of Union of liberal democrats 1,7 %)
- 2006 Chamber of Deputies: 0,3% - no seats
- 2006 Senate: no seat
[edit] See also
[edit] External link
- Freedom Union - Democratic Union official site
