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Budoucnost
Budoucnost () is a left-wing political movement in the Czech Republic, founded in May 2020. It is co-led by Jakub Kovařík and Klára Školníková. History The movement was registered in May 2020. Part of its preparatory committee consisted of former members of Idealists.cz and the Zelená re:vize organization associated with the Green Party. In the 2020 Senate elections, the movement joined the Social Democrats (ČSSD) and the Greens in supporting the candidacies of Jiří Dienstbier Jr. and Michal Šmarda. In the 2022 municipal elections, Budoucnost ran for the Prague City Assembly as part of the Solidarity coalition with ČSSD, the Greens, and the Idealists Movement, but did not win any seats. The movement stood candidates in 16 other seats, with four members elected in Jilemnice, Slaný, Neratovice and Horní Domaslavice. Budoucnost endorsed Josef Středula in the 2023 presidential election. He withdrew his candidacy on 8 January 2023. In the 2024 European Parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidarity (Czech Republic)
Solidarity () is a Prague electoral coalition formed for the 2022 City Council election. Its members are ČSSD, Green Party, Idealists and Budoucnost, headed by former ombudswoman Anna Šabatová, who is running as an independent candidate. The coalition officially launched its campaign on June 6, 2022 in front of the Municipal House in thecity centre. Its slogan is "Solidarity against selfishness". Program The coalition profiles itself as a " progressive project that emphasizes ecological and economic sustainability and social justice". It advocates a solution to the housing crisis through the large-scale construction of affordable city-owned apartments so that they could be available to the middle class in addition to those most in need, support for cooperative construction, support for the Housing First project, strengthening of tenants' rights or granting developers the obligation to transfer part of new housing construction to the city fund. It also supports greater inves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance
The Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance (CEEGLA) is a left-wing and green European political alliance gathering organisations and parties from Central and Eastern Europe. It was officially launched on 12 January 2024 in Warsaw. The initialism of the alliance is deliberately similar to the word ''cegła'' ("brick" in Polish). Ideology Writing in the American left-wing periodical ''Jacobin'', Polish-American journalist Roman Broszkowski wrote that leftists in Eastern Europe felt that they needed a "separate identity" from Western European leftists that "failed to realize" the potential consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and that the formation of CEEGLA in 2024 was meant to "concretize" this sentiment. At the launch event, Claudiu Crăciun of the Democracy and Solidarity Party stated to Broszkowski that "We realized that we live in different worlds and that the left-wing world — Western, South, and Northern — they have different views n the Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democracy (Czech Republic)
Social Democracy (, SOCDEM), known as the Czech Social Democratic Party (, ČSSD) until 10 June 2023, is a social democratic political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum and holding pro-European views, 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 Andrej Babiš' Second Cabinet's 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 legislative 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 legislative election, in which the party lost all of its seats after falling below 5%. The party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic ideology, economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic Centrally planned economies, centrally planned socialist economy. Democratic socialists argue that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the values of freedom, Egalitarianism, equality, and solidarity and that these Ideal (ethics), ideals can only be achieved through the realisation of a socialist society. Although most democratic socialists seek a gradual transition to socialism, democratic socialism can support revolutionary or reformist politics to establish socialism. ''Democratic socialism'' was popularised by socialists who opposed the backsliding towards a one-party state in the Soviet Union and other countries during the 20th century. The his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague City Assembly
The Prague City Assembly () is the legislative body of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The ''Act on the Capital City of Prague'' requires that the assembly consist of 50 to 70 members; it currently has 65 members, elected in 2022 Prague municipal election, in 2022 to four-year terms. The assembly is responsible for electing members of the Prague City Council, the city's executive body which includes the mayor; creating advisory committees; debating national and municipal legislation and programs; and awarding honorary citizenships and decorations from the city. Meetings are typically held monthly or on an ad hoc basis, but they must be held at least once every three months. The mayor convenes and conducts the meeting, which is recorded live and publicly available online. The assembly meets in the New City Hall (Prague), New City Hall building in Mariánské Square. Composition and elections The assembly consists of 50 to 70 members, as stipulated in the ''Act on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing. It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country. The legal status of homeless people varies from place to place. Homeless enumeration studies conducted by the government of the United States also include people who sleep in a public or private place that is not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. Homelessness and poverty are interrelated. There is no standardized method for counting homeless individuals and identifying their needs; consequently, most cities only have estimated figures for their homeless populations. In 2025, approximately 330 million people worldwide experience absolute homelessness, lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housing Cooperative
A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity which owns real estate consisting of one or more residential buildings. The entity is usually a cooperative or a corporation and constitutes a form of housing tenure. Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases they can be owned by a non-profit organization. They are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family home ownership, condominiums and renting. The cooperative is membership based, with membership granted by way of a share purchase in the cooperative. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit. A primary advantage of the housing cooperative is the pooling of the members' resources so that their buying power is leveraged; thus lowering the cost per member in all the services and products associated with home ownership. Another key element in so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distraint
Distraint or distress is "the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed", especially in common law countries. Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the ''distrainor''), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury." Distraint typically involves the seizure of goods ( chattels) belonging to the tenant by the landlord to sell the goods for the payment of the rent. In the past, distraint was often carried out without court approval. Today, some kind of court action is usually required, the main exception being certain tax authorities – such as HM Revenue and Customs in the United Kingdom and the Internal Revenue Service in the United States – and other agencies that retain the legal power to levy assets (by either seizure or distraint) without a cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 European Parliament Election In The Czech Republic
Elections were held in the Czech Republic from 7 to 8 June 2024 to elect 21 Czech representatives for the European Parliament, alongside the EU-wide 2024 European Parliament election. This was the fifth parliamentary election since the Czech Republic's EU accession in 2004, and the first to take place after Brexit. Electoral system The 21 members were elected through semi-open list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with seats allocated through D'Hondt method and a 5% electoral threshold for both single parties and coalitions of two or more parties. Both Czech and EU citizens were entitled to vote in the European election in Czech Republic provided they had a permanent or temporary residence in the country at least 45 days prior to the elections. In addition, those eligible to vote had to be 18 years old by the second election day at the latest. Voter registration was required only for non-Czech EU citizens residing in Czech Republic, while Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Czech Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January 2023, resulting in the election of Petr Pavel. Incumbent president Miloš Zeman was not eligible to run due to the two-term limit. The first round took place on 13 and 14 January. Petr Pavel, former chair of the NATO Military Committee, ran as an independent on a pro-Western, pro-European platform, and was one of three candidates backed by the centre-right governing alliance Spolu (Czech Republic), Spolu. He won the first round of the election with 35.40% of the popular vote, ahead of Andrej Babiš, the former Czech prime minister running as the candidate of ANO (political party), ANO, who finished second with 34.99%. Babiš had expressed opposition to Czech support for Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion and was characterised in the media as using Populism, populist rhetoric. For the runoff, Pavel was backed by most eliminated candidates and by the incumbent prime minister Petr Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Středula
Josef Středula (born 12 November 1967) is a Czech Republic, Czech trade union activist. He became the chairman of the KOVO trade union in 2005. He left the office in 2014 to become the chairman of the Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions. Early life and career Středula was born in Opava in 1967. He studied at Technical High School and then worked at Vítkovice Ironworks. He has been a trade unionist since 1993. Středula affiliated himself with the KOVO Trade Union, and was elected chairman of the union in 2005. He left the office when he 2014 ČMKOS presidential election, was elected chairman of the Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS). He was reelected in 2018. 2023 Presidential candidacy He was asked about his possible presidential candidacy by A2larm magazine. He said it was possible he could run in the 2023 Czech presidential election, next Czech presidential election if he had the support of trade unions. His statement was positively recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
