United Democrats – Association of Independents
The United Democrats - Association of Independents (Czech: Spojení demokraté - Sdružení nezávislých, SD-SN) is a small Czech extra-parliamentary political party, formed from what remained of the European Democrats (Czech: Evropští demokraté) after that party's merger in 2006 with SNK Union of Independents to form SNK European Democrats.
SD-SN has in the past cooperated with the Mayors and Independents in the Czech Senate. For the 2024 European Parliament election, the party was a member of the Stačilo! alliance, together with the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) and the Czech National Social Party (ČSNS), and had one Member of the European Parliament (MEP) elected.
History
The European Democrats were founded in 2002 by Jan Kasl, a former Civic Democrat mayor of Prague. From 2004, this party began cooperating with the SNK Union of Independents, winning 11% of the vote in the 2004 European Parliament election. In January 2006, the European Democrats agreed on a merger with SNK Union of Independents, to become SNK European Democrats; most of the party members left to join the new party.[2]
However, the original party was not dissolved due to an ongoing judicial dispute regarding the 2002 local elections in Prague.[citation needed] The remaining party members renamed the party to United Democrats - Association of Independents (SD-SN) later that year. The party subsequently lost all of its Prague city councilors in the 2006 local elections and all of its regional councilors in the 2008 Czech regional elections.
SD-SN ran independently in the 2009 European Parliament election, receiving 0.06% of the vote and losing its only seat in the European Parliament.
The party did not achieve any further electoral success until 2017, when it nominated Alena Dernerová, Senator since 2010 for S.cz, for the re-run of the 2016 Senate election in Most, which Dernerová won in the first round. In the Senate, Dernerová joined the Mayors and Independents club.
Dernerová failed to hold her mandate in the Czech Senate election, losing in the second round of the election. Since then, the party has moved in a conservative and anti-system direction.[citation needed] For the 2024 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of the Stačilo! alliance, together with the Communist Party and ČSNS. Its nominee Ondřej Dostál, a lawyer and former health expert for the Czech Pirate Party, was second on the list, and was elected as an MEP.
Election results
European Parliament
Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | EP Group |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Unclear | 1,501 | 0.06 (#29) | 0 / 22 | New | − |
2014 | Did not contest | 0 / 22 | 0 | |||
2019 | Did not contest | 0 / 22 | 0 | |||
2024[a] | Kateřina Konečná | 283,935 | 9.56 (#4) | 1 / 22 | 1 | NI |
References
External links
- United Democrats - Association of Independents official site
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- Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the respective chambers.
2021 (200 seats)
- SPOLU (71)
- ANO 2011 (71)
- PirStan (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (20)
- Independent (1)
2022 (81 seats)
- ODS-TOP 09 (35)
- Civic Democratic Party (23)
- TOP 09 (6)
- Independents (2)
- Svobodní (1)
- Mayors for the Liberec Region (1)
- ProMOST (1)
- Tábor 2020 (1)
- STAN (19)
- Mayors and Independents (15)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (2)
- Ostravak (1)
- Marek Hilšer for Senate (1)
- KDU-ČSL (12)
- ForRegion (6)
- ANO 2011 (5)
- Social Democracy (1)
- SEN 21-Pirates (6)
- SEN 21 (3)
- Czech Pirate Party (2)
- Hradec Králové Democratic Club (1)
- Independents (2)
- Independents (1)
2024 (21 seats)
- ANO 2011 (7)
- SPOLU (6)
- Přísaha (2)
- Stačilo! (2)
- Communist Party (1)
- SD-SN (1)
- Mayors and Independents (2)
- Czech Pirate Party (1)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (1)
2020 (675 seats)
- ANO 2011 (178)
- Civic Democratic Party (99)
- Czech Pirate Party (99)
- Mayors and Independents (69)
- KDU-ČSL (53)
- Social Democracy (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (35)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (22)
- TOP 09 (19)
- Communist Party (13)
- Green Party (6)
- SNK European Democrats (5)
- Others (40)
- Agrarian Democratic Party
- Alliance for the Future
- Alliance of National Forces
- Club of Committed Non-Party Members
- Conservative Party
- Czech National Social Party
- Czech Republic in First Place!
- Czech Sovereignty
- Democratic Party of Greens
- Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic
- Hlas
- Independents
- Koruna Česká
- Law, Respect, Expertise
- The Left
- Liberal Alliance of Independent Citizens
- Liberal-Environmental Party
- Moravané
- Moravian Land Movement
- Motorists for Themselves
- National Democracy
- Order of the Nation
- Party of Common Sense
- Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia
- Right Bloc
- Swiss Democracy
- United Democrats - Association of Independents
- Urza.cz
- Volt Czech Republic
- Workers' Party of Social Justice
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