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EGP Delegate and vice president
for international affairs

Ondřej Liška
ondrej.liska@zeleni.cz

General Manager

Tomas Prusa
tomas.prusa@zeleni.cz
+420 733 536 792

Other Vice Presidents

Katarina JACQUES, second vice president

Martin Ander, third vice-president, martin.ander@zeleni.cz

Zuzana Drhová, member for public relations, zuzana.drhova@zeleni.cz

Ladislav VRCHOVSKY

Dzamila STEHLIKOVA

Greens in Government

Parliamentary Group

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Czech Greens enter Parliament

Czech Greens won six seats in the elections to the Lower House of the Czech Parliament in June 2006. In addition, they won 447 coucillor seats in local election and six regional seats in the Prague City Council in the fall of 2006. They recieved no senatorial seat in October 2006 thus keeping their presence in the Upper House to one Senator.

The Czech Green Party held its Congress in Pardubice on September 24-25, 2005. 178 delegates elected a new, seven-member Presidium and 20 members to the National Council. Martin Bursik of Prague was elected the Party Chairperson and replaced Jan Beranek. Bursik was Minister of Environment in the Tosovky interim government in 1998 (at that time without a party affiliation). Dana Kuchtova of South Bohemia defended her position as First Deputy and Petr Štepánek of Prague continues in his position for foreign affairs (this time as Bursik's Deputy Chair). The third Deputy Chairperson is Dzamila Stehlikova from Chomutov. Like Stehlikova, the other three Presidium members are newcomers: Stepanka Johnova of Zdice (local politics), Dusan Luzny of Brno (expert working groups), and Martin Tichy of Olomouc (party finances). Outgoing Chairman Beranek was elected to the 55-member National Council. The Presidium includes three women (out of seven) – the highest share of any political party in the country.

Czech Green Party History

The Green Party in the Czech Republic was founded in 1990. Greens failed to enter the first elected Parliament but were successful in local elections, winning seats in City Councils. In 1992, Greens won three seats in the Parliament in a coalition with two other parties. Unfortunately, at that time Greens failed to communicate with the civic sector. This alienation from NGOs led to a long lasting crisis in which Greens repeatedly failed to gain seats in Parliament. A lack of central funding led the Party into ever-increasing debt. This crisis peaked in 1996 when Greens, as the result of technical errors in registration, failed to participate in general elections to the Lower House of the Czech Parliament.

New leadership led the Party into the 1998 general and local elections, again failing to win parliamentary seats and state support (1.12%, or 67,700 votes). Nevertheless, Greens proved their ability to attract voters on local level and continued their work in local councils. The Czech Green Party joined the European Federation of Green Parties in 1997. The party reorganized itself on the regional principle in 1999 and it won one seat in the 2000 regional elections – a modest step up from the local level. Ever since 1999, Green Party officials have tried to break down barriers between the party and the third sector.

In the spring of 2002 Miroslav Rokos, the chairman of the party at that time, appealed to Czech NGO activists to cooperate in order to help the Greens succeed in the national parliamentary elections. This time, Greens improved their performance in the Lower House elections. Although they failed to win a seat, Greens reached the threshold necessary to receive state financial support. The "Green 50" (later called "The Dark Green Appeal"), a mix of activists, intellectuals, and journalists, entered the Party in June 2002. The reinvigorated Greens made substantial progress in fall 2002 elections, winning seats on local councils in Prague, Brno, Northern Bohemia, and elsewhere in the country, including three mayoral appointments. An NGO activist, Jan Beranek, was elected as Party Chairman in April 2003. In June 2004, the Czech Greens ran for European Parliament seats and obtained 3.16% of the vote and no seats. Jaromír Štetina, a journalist, was the most successful candidate with the highest amount of preferential votes. He was subsequently elected to the Senate in November 2004. Greens also gained two seats in the South Moravian Regional Council in the fall 2004 elections.  

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Other Parties Represented in National Parliament  (200 seats): House of Representatives: CSSD (Social Democrats), KSCM (Communists),

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