The Civic Democratic Party is a conservative and economic liberal political party in the Czech Republic. The party sits centre-right on the political spectrum,and holds 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies,and is the second strongest party by number of seats following the 2021 election. It is the only political party in the Czech Republic that has maintained an uninterrupted representation in the Chamber of Deputies.
Cyril Svoboda is a Czech politician,who was leader of the Christian and Democratic Union –Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU–ČSL) in 2001–2003 and 2009–2010,and a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1998–2010. During his political career he held several ministerial positions,including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He founded the Diplomatic Academy in Prague in 2011 and is currently lecturing at several universities in Prague.
Milan Cabrnoch is a Czech physician and politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party,part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Jan Zahradil is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who had been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2024. Zahradil also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 to 2004.
Jaroslav Zvěřina is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party,part of the European Democrats and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. He was also a candidate in the European Parliament election in 2009,but was not reelected.
Nina Škottová was a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party,part of the European Democrats and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
Ivo Strejček is a former Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Civic Democratic Party,part of the European Conservatives and Reformists. He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Josef Zieleniec is a Czech politician and former Member of the European Parliament. From 2004,was a member of the SNK European Democrats (SNK-ED). In the European Parliament,he was a member of the European People's Party and served on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Zieleniec is currently a lecturer at the Prague academic center of New York University.
PalackýUniversity Olomouc is the oldest university in Moravia and the second-oldest in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1573 as a public university led by the Jesuit order in Olomouc,which was at that time the capital of Moravia and the seat of the episcopacy. At first it taught only theology,but soon the fields of philosophy,law and medicine were added.
Mirek Topolánek is a Czech politician and business manager who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009 and the leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) from 2002 to 2010. Between 2006 and 2009,Topolánek was the member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) and senator from Ostrava from 1996 until 2004. After leaving the politics in 2010,Topolánek has been active in the electric power industry as a vocal lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry.
David Rath is a Czech physician,former politician who served as Minister of Health from 2005 to 2006,and convicted criminal. He was a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) until 16 May 2012 when he resigned after being charged with bribery. He also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2006 to 2013,first as representative from Prague and then from Central Bohemian Region where he was Governor between 2008 and 2012.
Ivan Fuksa is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Agriculture from 2010 to 2011 and member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2010 to 2012.
Milada Emmerová is a Czech doctor,politician and former Minister of Health for the Czech Republic. As of April 2023,she is a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). Currently she is senator of Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
Alexandr Vondra is a Czech politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic from 2010 to 2012 under Prime Minister Petr Nečas and has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019.
Petr Gandalovič is a Czech politician and one of the founding members of the Civic Democratic Party. He served as the Czech Ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2017.
Petr Nečas is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013,and as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1993 to 2013.
Jan Fischer is a Czech politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from April 2009 to July 2010,heading a caretaker government. Later he was the minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014 in another interim government of JiříRusnok.
The CEVRO Institute is a private university in Prague,Czech Republic,established in 2005 by CEVRO,a think-tank affiliated with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
CEVRO is a think-tank affiliated with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS),a political party in the Czech Republic. It was established in 1999 by Ivan Langer.
Martin Baxa is a Czech politician who has served as the Czech Minister of Culture in Petr Fiala's Cabinet since December 2021. He has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since October 2017. He previously served as Mayor of Plzeňfrom 2010 to 2014,and again from 2018 to 2022.
