Freedom and Direct Democracy

Freedom and Direct Democracy Svoboda a přímá demokracie

Leader	Tomio Okamura
Founded	5 May 2015 (2015-05-05)
Split from	Dawn of Direct Democracy
Membership	9,000^[1]
Ideology	Euroscepticism Direct democracy Anti-immigration Patriotism
Political position	Right-wing
Colours	Blue
Chamber of Deputies	3 / 200
Senate	0 / 81
European Parliament	0 / 22
Regional councils	0 / 675
Local councils	0 / 62,300
Website
http://www.spd.cz/
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Freedom and Direct Democracy (Czech: Svoboda a přímá demokracie, short SPD) is an eurosceptic, national-liberal and pro-direct democracy political party in the Czech Republic. The party was founded in May 2015 by Tomio Okamura and Radim Fiala after a split of a few MPs from the Dawn of Direct Democracy, now Dawn - National Coalition.

Freedom and Direct Democracy is officially named after European Parliament eurosceptic political group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy.^[2]^[3]^[4] However, the party has official links with Marine Le Pen's National Front which is a member of the other eurosceptic political group in the European Parliament Europe of Nations and Freedom.^[5]

References

External links

Official website

Political parties in the Czech Republic

Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the respective chambers.

Chamber of Deputies 2013 (200 seats)	Czech Social Democratic Party (50) ANO 2011 (47) Communist Party (33) TOP 09 (26) Civic Democratic Party (16) Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (14) Dawn - National Coalition (9) Freedom and Direct Democracy (3) without party affiliation (2)

Senate 2014 (81 seats)	Czech Social Democratic Party (43) Civic Democratic Party (14) Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (4) STAN (3) ANO 2011 (4) Communist Party (2) Severočeši.cz (2) Green Party (2) TOP 09 (1) NK (1) Ostravak (1) Czech Pirate Party (1) Party of Civic Rights (1) non-affiliated (2)

European Parliament 2014 (21 seats)	ANO 2011 (4) TOP 09+STAN (4) Czech Social Democratic Party (4) Communist Party (3) Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (3) Civic Democratic Party (2) Party of Free Citizens (1)

Other parties	Crown of Bohemia National Socialists – 21st Century Left National Democracy Czech Sovereignty Workers' Party of Social Justice Czech National Social Party

Sources Chamber of Deputies Senate Statistical Office Politics of the Czech Republic Politics portal List of political parties by country

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