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KDU-ČSL (In Czech, the initials of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party;[15]Czech: Křesťanská a demokratická unie – Československá strana lidová), often shortened to lidovci ("the popular ones"), is a Christian-democratic[2][3]political party in the Czech Republic. The party has taken part in almost every Czech government since 1990. In the June 2006 legislative election, KDU-ČSL won 7.2% of the vote and 13 out of 200 seats. However, in the 2010 election, its vote share dropped to 4.4% and they lost all of its seats. The party regained its parliamentary standing in the 2013 legislative election, winning 14 seats in the new parliament,[16] thus becoming the first party ever to return to the Chamber of Deputies after previously dropping out.
On 12 April 2017, KDU-ČSL signed an agreement with STAN to participate in 2017 legislative election as a coalition. Coalition needed to get more 10% of votes get over threshold.[18] The coalition disintegrated before the election,[19] thus the party went into the elections standalone, receiving 5.8% of votes.
In March 2019 the party was officially renamed to KDU-ČSL, its common abbreviation and Marek Výborný became a new party leader.[20] After the death of his wife announced Marek Výborný in November 2019 his resignation for personal reasons.[21]
Membership
KDU-ČSL had 27,662 Members in 2015 which is the second largest member base of any party in the Czech Republic. The number has been decreasing since the 1990s when the party had 100,000 Members. It is caused by high average age of members.[22]
KDU-ČSL is known to have very strong electoral core concentrated primarily in South Moravia. The party has very stable electoral support thanks to the rural voters in Moravia and has managed to gain seats in the Chamber of Deputies during every election cycle in the Czech Republic since 1990 with the exception of 2010.[26]
* Places are by number of votes gained. ** The whole Senate was elected. Only one third of Senate was elected in all subsequent elections. ***Participated as Part of Four-Coalition
Brenner, Christiane; Gehler, Michael; Kaiser, Wolfram (2004). "A Missed Opportunity to Oppose State Socialism? The People's Party in Chechoslavakia". Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945. Routledge. pp. 151–168. ISBN0-7146-5662-3.
Suppan, Arnold (2004). "Catholic People's Parties in East Central Europe: The Bohemian Lands and Slovakia". Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945. Vol. 1. Routledge. pp. 178–192.
