The Party of Civic Rights (, SPO), also referred to as Zemanovci ("Zemanites"), was a centre-left, left-wing populist social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic founded in October 2009 by Miloš Zeman, the former prime minister of the Czech Republic and former leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party. Zeman was elected the president of the Czech Republic in the second round of the 2013 Czech presidential election. The party advocated direct democracy and the Nordic model.
In 2014, Jan Veleba, elected as an independent candidate in the 2012 Czech Senate election, joined the party and became its chairman. In the 2014 Czech Senate election, former JZD Slusovice chairman František Čuba was elected as the party's second senator. It has never won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. In the 2016 Czech regional elections, it participated in a coalition with Okamura's Freedom and Direct Democracy party and won 16 seats.
Chairmen Person Period 1. Miloš ZemanHonorary chairman (13 November 2010 – present) 6 March 2010 – 29 May 2010 – Vladimír Hönig(Vice-chairman) 29 May 2010 – 13 November 2010 2. Vratislav Mynář 13. November 2010 – 23 March 2013 3. Zdeněk Štengl 23 March 2013 – 29 March 2014 4. Jan Veleba 29 March 2014 – 28 March 2018 5. Lubomír Nečas 28 March 2018 – 7 March 2020 6. Martin Šulc 7 March 2020 – 31 March 2022 – Marian Kemeridský(Vice-chairman) 31 March 2022 – 31 December 2022
Election results Chamber of Deputies Year Leader Vote Vote % Seats Place 2010 Miloš Zeman 226,527 4.33% 7th2013 Zdeněk Štengl 75,113 1.51% 11th2017 František Ringo Čech 18,556 0.36% 14th 2021 colspan="5"
Senate ElectionFirst roundSecond roundSeatsVotes%PlacesVotes%Places2010 17,195 1.50 10th - - - 2012 10,894 1.24 8th - - - 2014 22,080 2.15 8th 11,971 2.53 7th 2016 4,568 0.52 24th - - -
Presidential ElectionCandidateFirst round resultSecond round resultVotes%VotesResultVotes%VotesResult 2013 Miloš Zeman 1,245,848 24.21 2,717,405 54.80 2018 Miloš Zeman 1,985,547 38.56 2,853,390 51.37
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