2021 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election

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2021 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election
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  2018 4 December 2021 2024  
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Candidate Tomio Okamura
Electoral vote84
Percentage98.8%

leader of SPD before election

Tomio Okamura

Elected leader of SPD

Tomio Okamura

The Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leadership election of 2021 was held on 4 December 2021. Tomio Okamura was elected for third term. [1]

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Background

Tomio Okamura founded the party in 2015 after he split from Dawn. He was elected party's leader the same year. [2] Okamura led the party during 2021 legislative election during which it received 9.5% compared to 10.6% from 2017 election. Okamura still called it a good result noting that SPD lost some voters to smaller parties with similar programs. [3] Leadership election was scheduled for 4 December 2021. Tomio Okamura announced he will seek reelection. [4] He was the only candidate. [5] MEP Hynek Blaško reportedly planned to run against Okamura, but he wasn't invited to the conference and thus was unable to participate in the election. [6]

Voting

85 delegates were allowed to vote on a party conference. Delegates had to participate through online devices due to COVID-19. Okamura received 84 votes. Okamura himself abstained from voting. He stated that he considers the result a great award for his work and a big obligation to members of the party. [7] [8]

CandidateVote%
Tomio Okamura 8498.82%
Against11.18%

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References

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  2. "Okamura se stal předsedou hnutí Svoboda a přímá demokracie". Deník.cz (in Czech). 4 August 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  3. "Okamura: Osm procent nám ubraly strany, které měly určitý programový překryv". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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  5. "Okamura počítá s obměnou ve vedení SPD. Vyzyvatele na post předsedy zatím nemá". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  6. Strnadová, Tereza (13 December 2021). "Blaško chtěl kandidovat na šéfa SPD, na sjezd ho nepozvali. Pro Okamuru neexistuji, říká europoslanec". Hospodářské noviny (HN.cz) (in Czech). Retrieved 14 December 2021.
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  8. "Okamura zůstává předsedou SPD. Hnutí si ho znovu zvolilo do vedení". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 4 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.