Alliance for the Future (, APB) is a political party in the Czech Republic, established in 2016 as the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA). It considers itself to be successor of the previous

Civic Democratic Alliance The Civic Democratic Alliance (, ODA) was a conservative-liberal political party in the Czech Republic, active between 1989 (founded shortly after the Velvet revolution) and 2007. The ODA was part of government coalitions until 1997 and partic ...

. It was established in September 2016 by current leader

Pavel Sehnal Pavel (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Russian language, Russian, Serbian language, Serbian: Павел; Czech language, Czech, Slovene language, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cogna ...

, and former Prime Minister

Petr Nečas Petr Nečas (; born 19 November 1964) is a Czech former politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013, and as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1993 to 20 ...

is also involved with the party. The party participated in the 2017 legislative election and plans to participate in the 2018 municipal election. The leaders of the original Civic Democratic Alliance are not involved with the party.

Ideology

ODA is a conservative-liberal centre-right party. It supports the European Union and

multiculturalism Multiculturalism is the coexistence of multiple cultures. The word is used in sociology, in political philosophy, and colloquially. In sociology and everyday usage, it is usually a synonym for ''Pluralism (political theory), ethnic'' or cultura ...

History

The party was founded in December 2016 by Pavel Sehnal, CEO of SPGroup. The company is closely linked with the party and leading associates of the company became key members of the party. Sehnal said that the party is a successor to the original

. On 29 June 2017, ODA announced

Vratislav Kulhánek Vratislav Kulhánek (born 20 November 1943) is a Czech business manager and former chairman of the Czech Ice Hockey Association. He stood as a candidate in the 2018 presidential election as a nominee of the Civic Democratic Alliance, finishing ni ...

as its presidential candidate for the 2018 presidential election, and started gathering signatures. On 17 July 2017, ODA announced that it would participate in the 2017 legislative election, co-operating with a political movement For Health and Sport. In August 2017, ODA started working with a controversial youtuber, Mikael Oganesjan, and controversial agency Plavec Media. This was criticised in the media. The negative response on social media caused Sehnal to end the collaboration.

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

Presidential

References

External links

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