2021 Freedom and Direct Democracy leadership election

Czech political party leadership election

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Candidate	Tomio Okamura
Electoral vote	84
Percentage	98.8%

leader of SPD before election

Tomio Okamura

Elected leader of SPD

Tomio Okamura

The Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) leadership election of 2021 was held on 4 December 2021. Tomio Okamura was elected for third term.^[1]

Background

Tomio Okamura founded the party in 2015 after he split from Dawn. He was elected party's leader the same year.^[2] Okamura led the party during 2021 legislative election during which it received 9.5% compared to 10.6% from 2017 election. Okamura still called it a good result noting that SPD lost some voters to smaller parties with similar programs.^[3] Leadership election was scheduled for 4 December 2021. Tomio Okamura announced he will seek reelection.^[4] He was the only candidate.^[5] MEP Hynek Blaško reportedly planned to run against Okamura, but he wasn't invited to the conference and thus was unable to participate in the election.^[6]

Voting

85 delegates were allowed to vote on a party conference. Delegates had to participate through online devices due to COVID-19. Okamura received 84 votes. Okamura himself abstained from voting. He stated that he considers the result a great award for his work and a big obligation to members of the party.^[7]^[8]

Candidate	Vote	%
Tomio Okamura	84	98.82%
Against	1	1.18%

References

^ "Hnutí SPD dál povede Okamura, byl jediným kandidátem na předsedu". ceskenoviny.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Okamura se stal předsedou hnutí Svoboda a přímá demokracie". Deník.cz (in Czech). 4 August 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
^ "Okamura: Osm procent nám ubraly strany, které měly určitý programový překryv". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "SPD volí nové vedení, Okamura bude obhajovat post předsedy hnutí". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Okamura počítá s obměnou ve vedení SPD. Vyzyvatele na post předsedy zatím nemá". iROZHLAS (in Czech). Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ Strnadová, Tereza (13 December 2021). "Blaško chtěl kandidovat na šéfa SPD, na sjezd ho nepozvali. Pro Okamuru neexistuji, říká europoslanec". Hospodářské noviny (HN.cz) (in Czech). Retrieved 14 December 2021.
^ "Delegáti hnutí SPD zvolili své nové vedení, předsedou zůstává Tomio Okamura". Radio Prague International (in Czech). 4 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
^ "Okamura zůstává předsedou SPD. Hnutí si ho znovu zvolilo do vedení". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 4 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.