Social Democracy
Sign in to saveAlso known as ČSSD, Czech Social Democratic Party
centre-left Czech political party
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- SOCDEM
- Leader
- Jiří Nedvěd
- Deputy leaders
- Radek Scherfer , Michal Chalupný , Alžběta Kálalová , Jiří Ott
- Founders
- Josef Boleslav Pecka , Ladislav Zápotocký
- Founded
- 7 April 1878 ; 148 years ago ( 1878-04-07 )
- Headquarters
- Lidový dům, Hybernská 1033/7, Prague 1
- Think tank
- Masaryk Democratic Academy
- Youth wing
- Young Social Democrats
- Women s wing
- Social Democratic Women
- Religious wing
- Christian Social Platform
- Membership 2025
- 3,090
- Ideology
- Social democracy , Left-wing populism
- Political position
- Centre-left
- National affiliation
- National Front , (1945–1948), Stačilo! (since 2025)
- European affiliation
- Party of European Socialists
- European parliament group
- Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
- International affiliation
- Progressive Alliance , Socialist International
- Colours
- Pastel red
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Participant in
- 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Founded by
- Ladislav Zápotocký
- Headquarters
- Prague
- Official website
- socdem.cz
- Political ideology
- social democracy
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- Commons category
- Czech Social Democratic Party
- topic's main category
- Category:Czech Social Democratic Party
- inception
- 1878-04-07
- short name
- ČSSD
- member count
- 21501
- member of
- Labour and Socialist International
- native label
- Sociální demokracie
- political alignment
- centre-left
- member category
- Category:Czech Social Democratic Party politicians
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FF5F61
- social media followers
- 22700
- web feed URL
- socdem.cz/feed
- number of seats in assembly
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Social Democracy (Czech: Sociální demokracie, SOCDEM), known as the Czech Social Democratic Party (Czech: Česká strana sociálně demokratická, ČSSD) until 10 June 2023, is a social democratic political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum, it is a member of the Party of European Socialists, the Socialist International, and the Progressive Alliance. Masaryk Democratic Academy is the party-affiliated's think tank.
The ČSSD was a junior coalition party within Second cabinet of Andrej Babiš' minority government from June 2018, and was a senior coalition party from 1998 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2017. It held 15 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic following the 2017 Czech parliamentary election in which the party lost 35 seats. From 2018 to 2021, the party was led by Jan Hamáček, who has since been replaced by Michal Šmarda as leader after the 2021 Czech parliamentary election, in which the party lost all of its seats after falling below 5%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Social Democracy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.