Stačilo! () is a political party in the

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. It was first announced as an electoral alliance on 4 December 2023 by

Kateřina Konečná Kateřina Konečná (born 20 January 1981) is a Czech politician who has been the leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) since 23 October 2021, and a Member of the European Parliament representing the Czech Republic since 20 ...

, leader of the

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(KSČM). The alliance consisted of KSČM,

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and independent individuals. On 10 October 2024, it transformed into a political party, founded by , who was elected as the party chairman in March 2025.

History

2024 European Parliament election

In November 2023, KSČM announced its intention to form a broad political alliance for the 2024 European Parliament elections, with the other members of the coalition to be announced in December. KSČM leader

announced the coalition on 4 December 2023, stating that it had been initiated by KSČM "with the aim of uniting left-wing and patriotic parties and movements that are not indifferent to the position of the Czech Republic in the European Union, the practice of censorship, the waste of money on weapons or ineffective social policies leading to appalling differences in the minimum wage within the EU". The coalition's founding members were KSČM and SD-SN; Konečná was chosen as the lead candidate for the alliance's electoral list.

Ondřej Dostál Ondřej Dostál (born 25 January 1979) is a Czech lawyer and politician who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2024. He is the 1st vice-chair of Stačilo!. Early life and career Dostál was born in Chomutov, and later moved ...

, a lawyer and former healthcare adviser to the

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, was the lead candidate for the United Democrats. In March 2024, the

announced that it was joining the coalition. The leading ČSNS candidate on the list was chairman

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. The coalition announced that it would participate in the

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in June 2024. Konečná suggested that the coalition could continue after the European elections.

2024 Czech regional elections

For the 2024 regional elections, the coalition submitted a joint list in 12 out of 13 contested regions, several them in cooperation with other left-wing and nationalist parties, such as

ČSSD Social Democracy (, SOCDEM), known as the Czech Social Democratic Party (, ČSSD) until 10 June 2023, is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in the Czech Republic, political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on t ...

or DOMOV. In the

Ústí nad Labem Region Ústí nad Labem Region or Ústecký Region () is an Regions of the Czech Republic, administrative unit () of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of the historical land of Bohemia, and named after the capital, Ústí nad Labem. I ...

, SOCDEM joined the coalition list, which was criticized by SOCDEM's leader Michal Šmarda. However, Šmarda refused to formally ban such a cooperation. Stačilo! won representation in all contested regions except the

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, where it fell short of the threshold by just eight votes, and gained 40 regional councillors in total. The coalition demanded a recount of the votes in Liberec, which was approved by the Liberec Regional Court. However, although the recount found some counting errors, the court ruled that they had not affected the final result, and certified the election.

2025 Czech parliamentary election

On 16 November 2024, the Communist Party renewed the coalition for the 2025 election. However, Stačilo! will formally run as a newly-created party instead of a coalition, in order to avoid the higher electoral threshold. The party was founded by Daniel Sterzik. Konečná said she would resign from the

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if elected. At the same time, SOCDEM leader

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said she was in talks with the coalition about her party's participation in the coalition. However, some party members, as well as the Young Social Democrats, opposed cooperation with the communists and threatened to leave SOCDEM if it joined Stačilo!. Konečná stated that any party wishing to join the coalition would have to respect its fundamental demands, including a foreign agent law, referendums on the Czech Republic's exit from the

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and

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, and moving public media under direct state control. It was confirmed that the

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, led by ex-PM

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, was also in talks about joining the coalition, after widespread cooperation in the regional elections. However, ČSNS later vetoed the party's admission. Paroubek cited "multiple reasons", but did not specify any.

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's leader Robert Šlachta has not ruled out joining the coalition, after the Motorists for Themselves chose to abandon the joint coalition between the two parties. On 4 March 2025, Stačilo! formed as a party established a leadership, with Daniel Sterzik as chairman,

as 1st Vice-Chairman and Pavlína Procházková as Vice-Chairman. Later in March 2025, the Moravané party announced cooperation with Stačilo!. On 31 March 2025, it was announced that former MEP Jana Bobošíková would lead Stačilo! in the

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Ideology and policies

Stačilo! describes itself as "

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

and

patriotic Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to one's country or state. This attachment can be a combination of different feelings for things such as the language of one's homeland, and its ethnic, cultural, politic ...

" and "the only relevant opposition". However, the alliance has also been described as an attempt to avoid the controversial "communist" label and attract voters from the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

. The coalition's list for the European Parliament election included several candidates accused of spreading

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during the

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; the movement as a whole has been labeled as "anti-system" and

eurosceptic Euroscepticism, also spelled as Euroskepticism or EU-scepticism, is a political position involving criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration. It ranges from those who oppose some EU institutions and policies and seek refor ...

. Konečná has named the abolition of the

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and reversal of the planned EU-wide ban on the sale of cars with combustion engines as priorities. She also pledged to cease the delivery of weapons to

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, and called for the equalization of salaries across the whole European Union. Stačilo! also supports the removal of all EU sanctions against

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and

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, and the purchase of Russian

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by EU countries.

Composition

Founding parties

Regional partners

Election results

European Parliament

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic

Notes

References