Petr Cibulka

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Petr Cibulka
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Cibulka in 2025
Leader of the Right Bloc
Assumed office
22 July 2000 [1]
Personal details
Born (1950-10-27) 27 October 1950 (age 75)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
(now in the Czech Republic)
Party Right Bloc (since 1996)
Other political
affiliations
Club of Committed Non-Party Members (1991–1992) [2]

Petr Cibulka (born 27 October 1950) is a Czech politician and former dissident. He is the founder and leader of the minor Right Bloc political party.

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Communist era

Cibulka was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. [2] As a former member of Charter 77, [3] He was imprisoned multiple times during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Prior to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Cibulka had been arrested three times, and spent a total of four years in prison for distributing non-official cultural and musical material. [4] During the Velvet Revolution, he was again arrested and imprisoned.[ citation needed ]

StB archives disclosure

In the early 1990s, Cibulka published material from still-classified StB archives, containing lists of tens of thousands names of people with connections to the secret services. In 1999, he published a second edition of the list in book form. The book sold five times as many copies as the average work of fiction. [3] A searchable electronic version was added later.

In 2003, the Czech government published similar, but much shorter lists, along with the very few personal files kept by the StB.

Other activities

Cibulka published an online political journal entitled "Uncensored News" (Czech : Necenzurované Noviny).[ citation needed ]

He is also the founder and leader of a tiny political party, the Right Bloc (Czech : Pravý blok). [5] He was nominated by the party as its candidate in the 2013 presidential election, but he was able to collect only 300 signatures of the required 50,000, and did not qualify as a candidate. [6]

References

  1. "Rejstřík politických stran a hnutí". Ministry of the Interior (Czech Republic) (in Czech). Archived from the original on 2025-09-09. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
  2. 1 2 "Matku ze seznamů Petr Cibulka vyškrtl". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 2009-07-04. Archived from the original on 2025-10-04. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  3. 1 2 "The Kundera Conundrum: Kundera, Respekt and Contempt". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  4. "For Czechoslovakian prisoners". RadioRadicale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  5. Juliet., Lodge; service), Palgrave Connect (Online (2010). The 2009 elections to the European Parliament. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   978-0230297272. OCLC   756047415.
  6. "Cibulka si kvůli vyřazení z prezidentské volby stěžuje u Ústavního soudu". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 January 2018.