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Mayors and Independents
Starostové a nezávislíLeader Petr Gazdík Founded 2004 Ideology Localism Official colours Green, yellow, blue, and red Chamber of Deputies 3 / 200Senate 1 / 81European Parliament 0 / 22Website www.starostove-nezavisli.cz Politics of the Czech Republic
Political parties
ElectionsThe Mayors and Independents (Czech: Starostové a nezávislí), abbreviated to STAN, is a political party in the Czech Republic. The Mayors and Independents focus on localism and promoting powers for municipalities. The party grew out of the Independent Mayors for Region, which allied itself to the liberal conservative SNK European Democrats, but now cooperates with the similarly liberal conservative TOP 09.
In the 2010 election to the Chamber of Deputies, STAN won three seats on the TOP 09 list: Josef Cogan, Stanislav Polčák, and party leader Petr Gazdík. In the 2010 Senate election, one STAN member, Jan Horník, was elected. The party competes separately in local government elections. In the 2010 local elections, the party won 1,243 councillors, making it the sixth-largest party on local councils.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ "Voloby Do Obecních zastupitelstev ČR 2010". http://volby.idnes.cz/komunalni-2010.asp. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
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Political parties in the Czech Republic
Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the respective chambers. Sources: Chamber of Deputies · Senate · Statistical Office Chamber of Deputies
2010 (200 seats)Czech Social Democratic Party (56) · Civic Democratic Party (53) · TOP 09 (41) · Communist Party (26) · Public Affairs (24)Senate
2010 (81 seats)Social Democrats (41) · Civic Democratic Party (25) · Christian and Democratic Union (6)12 · TOP 09 (5)3 · Communist Party (2) · NorthBohemians.cz (2)European Parliament
2009 (22 seats)Civic Democratic Party (9) · Czech Social Democratic Party (7) · Communist Party (4) · Christian and Democratic Union (2)
Other parties
(>0.5% of the 2010 vote)Christian and Democratic Union · Party of Civic Rights – Zemanovci · Sovereignty – Jana Bobošíková Bloc · Green Party · Workers' Party of Social Justice · Czech Pirate Party · Party of Free Citizens1 Includes one elected as independent. 2 One more split to TOP 09. 3 Only one was actually elected as TOP 09 candidate, one split from Christian Democratic Union, two were elected for Mayors and Independents and one for Party for the Open SocietyPolitics of the Czech Republic · Politics portal · List of political parties by country This article about a Czech political party is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.