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Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy | |
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Abbreviation | KSČM |
Chairwoman | Kateřina Konečná |
First Vice-Chairman | Petr Šimůnek |
Deputy Leaders | Marie Pěnčíková Leo Luzar Milan Krajča |
Founded | 31 March 1990 |
Preceded by | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
Headquarters | Politických vězňů 9, Prague |
Newspaper | Haló noviny |
Think tank | Institute of the Czech Left |
Youth wing | Young Communists |
Membership (2023) | 18,307 |
Ideology | Communism[1] Marxism Socialism Euroscepticism |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
National affiliation | Stačilo! |
European affiliation | Party of the European Left (observer) |
European Parliament group | The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL (2004–2024) Non-Inscrits (2024–)[2] |
International affiliation | IMCWP WAP[3] |
Colours | Red |
Slogan | "S lidmi pro lidi!" "With the people for the people!" |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 200 |
Senate | 0 / 81 |
European Parliament | 1 / 21 |
Regional councils | 13 / 675 |
Local councils | 466 / 62,300 |
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The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech: Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy, KSČM) is a communist party[4] in the Czech Republic.[5] As of 2022, KSČM has a membership of 20,450.[6] Sources variously describe the party as either left-wing[7][8] or far-left[9][10] on the political spectrum. It is one of the few former ruling parties in post-Communist Central Eastern Europe to have not dropped the Communist title from its name, although it has changed its party program to adhere to laws adopted after 1989.[11][12] It was previously a member party of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL in the European Parliament,[13] and an observer member of the European Left Party,[14] but is now unaffiliated.
For most of the first two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the party was politically isolated and accused of extremism, but later moved closer to the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).[12] After the 2012 Czech regional elections, KSČM began governing in coalition with the ČSSD in 10 regions.[15] It has never been part of a governing coalition in the executive branch but provided parliamentary support to Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet until April 2021. The party's youth organization was banned from 2006 to 2010,[12][16] and there have been calls from other parties to outlaw the main party.[17] Until 2013, it was the only political party in the Czech Republic printing its own newspaper, called Haló noviny.[18] The party's two cherry logo comes from the song Le Temps des cerises, a revolutionary song associated with the Paris Commune.[19]
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