Czech Social Democratic Party

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Template:Infobox Czech Political Party The Czech Social Democratic Party (Czech: Česká strana sociálně demokratická or ČSSD) is the Social Democrat political party in the Czech Republic.

After 1989 for the first time the party formed the government in 1998, under the leadership of Miloš Zeman, and is still in power now, although this is likely to change after elections in late spring of 2006.

It won the elections of 2002 with 70 of 200 representatives in the lower house of the Czech Parliament. Its member Jiří Paroubek is the Prime Minister, heading a coalition with two smaller parties, the Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party and the Freedom Union-Democratic Union. The current chairman of the party is Bohuslav Sobotka whose predecessor Stanislav Gross resigned after a scandal in which he was unable to explain the source financial resources used to pay for his home. Gross's predecessor Vladimír Špidla was forced to resign in 2004 after the ČSSD lost in European Parlimentary elections.

1 History
- 1.1 Election results since 1993
2 See also
3 External links

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History

1878–1893 Czechoslavonic Social-democratic Party in Austria (Sociálně-demokratická strana českoslovanská v Rakousku) - part of Social Democratic Party of Austria
1894–1918 Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Worker´s Party (Českoslovanská sociálně demokratická stranu dělnická) - independent party
1918–1938 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Worker´s Party (Československá sociálně demokratická strana dělnická) - merged with slovak social democrats
1938–1941 National Work Party (Národní strana práce) - united left party of social democrats and part of national socialists
1945–1948 Czechoslovak Social Democracy (Československá sociální demokracie)
1948–1989 - merged with Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, concurrenty existed as exile party with headquarter in London
1990–1993 Czechoslovak Social Democracy (Československá sociální demokracie)
since 1993 Czech Social Democratic Party (Česká strana sociálně demokratická)