Moravané
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Moravané (i.e. Moravians) is a small non-parliamentary political party in Moravia in The Czech Republic. It arose in 2005 by the coalescence of other two regional parties, Hnutí samosprávné Moravy a Slezska - Moravské národní sjednocení (The Movement of Autonomous Moravia - The Moravian National Unification) and Moravská demokratická strana (Moravian Democratical Party).
The first and by now being chairman of the party is Pavel Dohnal. The party took part in nationwide parliamentary election (none Moravian regional assembly exists) first time in June 2006 and won 0.23 % of popular votes in the whole Czech Republic. Moravané is part of the European Free Alliance, the youth wing of the party called Mladí Moravané (Young Moravians) also exists.
The main goal of the party is defined (by the statute) as follows: On the principle of the right of self-determination of the Moravian nation the party Moravané aims at the independence of Moravia by restoration of Moravian legislative parliament within the territorial scope of the Moravian ecclesiastical province.[1]
[edit] External links
- Official website (Czech)
- Should Moravians be treated as an ethnic minority? (an article with opinions and photo of the leader of political party Moravané
[edit] References
- ^ The administrative arrangement of the present Czech republic does not respect the traditional frontier of Moravia and only the Roman Catholic church preserves it in its provinces.
