Free Citizens Party
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Free Citizens Party
Strana svobodných občanů |
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| Leader | Petr Mach MEP |
| Founded | 14 February 2009 |
| Headquarters | Perucká 2196/14 120 00 Prague 2 |
| Newspaper | Beran Magazine |
| Membership (2016) | 747 |
| Ideology | Classical liberalism Right-libertarianism Libertarian conservatism Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| European affiliation | Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe |
| International affiliation |
International Alliance of Libertarian Parties Interlibertarians |
| European Parliament group | Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy |
| Colours | Green |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 200
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| Senate |
0 / 81
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| European Parliament |
1 / 21
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| Regional councils |
2 / 675
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| Local councils |
76 / 62,121
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The Party of Free Citizens or the Free Citizens' Party (Czech: Strana svobodných občanů, Svobodní) is a classical liberal and right-libertarianeurosceptic political party in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 2009 by Petr Mach PhD, an economist and a university professor of Macroeconomics. Before taking his position as MEP, he taught at two private business universities in Prague, VŠFS and VŠEM.
It ran in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic; among its goals were the failure of the Treaty of Lisbon and forcing a referendum on introduction of the euro in the Czech Republic. It was in talks with Declan Ganley to be part of his EU-wide Libertas movement, but the talks failed. Its logo are the horns of a green ram. Following the 2014 European Parliament election, the party's elected MEP joined the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) Group.
Currently, the party has one MEP elected (the leader, Petr Mach). Several county councilors successfully ran on the party's ballot in 2010 local election and 38 councilors held positions in mostly small towns and cities. The party set up ballot papers in local election 2014 as well and increased its portion of councilors. There are elected councilors in city districts (Prague 3, Prague 18, Brno-Slatina) and it statutory towns (Chrudim, Hodonín, Kutná Hora, etc.)
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