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Public Affairs Věci veřejné | |
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| Chairman | Fredegar Formen Stanislava Moravcová Jaroslav Škárka Radek John Vít Bárta Jiří Kohout |
| Founded | 22 July 2002 |
| Dissolved | 12 November 2015 |
| Headquarters | Štefánikova 23/203, Prague 5 |
| Newspaper | Věci veřejné |
| Ideology | Conservative liberalism[1][2][3] Direct democracy[2][4] Populism[5][6] |
| Political position | Centre[6][7][8] to centre-right[4][9][10] |
| Colours | Light blue |
Public Affairs (Czech: Věci veřejné, VV, nicknamed véčkaři) was a political party in the Czech Republic.[11][12][13] Its main platform was transparency and opposition to political corruption. It had 24 seats in the 2010–2013 Chamber of Deputies. The party was led by anti-establishment investigative journalist and writer Radek John,[14] and later by Jiří Kohout.
Besides opposing corruption, the party shares the fiscally conservative views of the other centre-right parties.[7] It had a number of right-wing populist policies.[15] The party lacked of a coherent ideology and gained voters across the political spectrum.[6] The party was supportive of direct democracy – the members of the party could change the course of the party by Internet referendums – and was pro-European Union.[4]
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- ^ a b c Marek, Dan, The Czech Republic and the European Union, Routledge 2010, p. 45
- ^ Stojarová, Věra (2011), "Paramilitary Structures in Eastern Europe", The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 276
- ^ a b c Havlík, Vlastimil; Voda, Petr (16 April 2018). "Cleavages, Protest or Voting for Hope? The Rise of Centrist Populist Parties in the Czech Republic". Swiss Political Science Review. 24 (2): 161–186. doi:10.1111/spsr.12299.
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- ^ Watson, Peggy (2 September 2010). "Czech female MPs have reduced politics by posing as pin-ups". The Guardian.
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- ^ Fraňková, Ruth (31 May 2010). "Public Affairs party remains a mystery to many". Radio Prague.
- ^ Klausmann, Alexandra (21 May 2010). "Tschechien: Jugend vereint gegen Linksparteien". Wiener Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.