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Spolu
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Spolu | |
|---|---|
| English name | Together |
| Leader | Petr Fiala |
| Founders | Petr Fiala Marian Jurečka Markéta Pekarová Adamová |
| Founded | 9 December 2020 (2020-12-09) |
| Dissolved | 17 January 2026[1] |
| Ideology | Liberal conservatism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right[2] |
| Colours | Green and orange (2025–2026) Blue (2020–2025) |
| Member parties | ODS KDU-ČSL TOP 09 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 52 / 200 |
| Senate | 38 / 81 |
| European Parliament | 6 / 21 |
| Regional councils | 181 / 675 |
| Governors of the regions | 1 / 13 |
| Local councils | 5,974 / 61,780 |
| Prague City Assembly | 19 / 65 |
| Website | |
| spolu25.cz | |
Spolu (lit. 'Together', stylized as SPOLU) was a Czech centre-right political alliance composed of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), KDU-ČSL, and TOP 09. The alliance was formed ahead of the 2021 parliamentary election, which it won, forming a coalition government with the Pirates and Mayors alliance, with Petr Fiala as prime minister. Spolu competed again in the 2025 election, but lost the election to ANO 2011.
History
Precursor cooperation
Following the 2017 parliamentary election, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), KDU-ČSL, TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents (STAN) formed the Democratic Bloc to cooperate during negotiations of the parliament's body.[3] After these positions were filled, Petr Fiala announced the end of the Democratic Bloc however, he stated that he was open to cooperating with these parties in the future.[4]
In 2019, Milion chvilek pro demokracii started pushing ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09, STAN and the Czech Pirate Party to cooperate in the 2021 parliamentary election as a way to prevent vote splitting and ensure that the smaller parties would not be disadvantaged by the electoral system [cs].[5] On 5 November 2019, ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09 and STAN signed an agreement to jointly promote five "safeguards for a lawful and secure state" [6]
Formation of Spolu
Following the 2020 regional elections, the Civic Democratic Party, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 began negotiations about a potential centre-right electoral alliance for the 2021 parliamentary election.[7]
The ODS leadership agreed to form an alliance with the other parties on 25 October 2020.[8] Two days later party leaders Petr Fiala, Marian Jurečka and Markéta Pekarová Adamová signed a memorandum and announced that ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 would form an electoral alliance for the next legislative election, with ODS leader Fiala as the alliance's candidate for prime minister.[9] On 11 November 2020, the parties agreed that ODS would nominate the leaders of the election lists in nine regions, KDU-ČSL in three regions, and TOP 09 in two regions.[10] The alliance was known by the media as the Three-Coalition, but on 9 December 2020 the parties announced that they would run under the name Spolu (lit. 'Together').[11] The parties also introduced the shared electoral programme and the original logo of the coalition on 9 December 2020.[12]
On 6 January 2021, the coalition was approached by Koruna Česká, the Conservative Party and KAN for potential cooperation. The parties called the proposition the "Three Kings Offer", a reference to the Three King's Day and to the fact that there were three of them.[13] This cooperation fell through.[14] On 17 January it was announced that the leader of Independents [cs] would run with Spolu[15] and on 15 September 2021 the coalition signed a memorandum with SNK-ED about its support of the coalition.[16]
2021 Parliamentary election
On 11 April 2021, the Civic Democratic Party, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 signed the coalition agreement, introduced new logo and their priorities, the slogan of the campaign was "We will put Czechia back together" (Czech: Dáme Česko dohromady)[17]
On 19 May 2021, in Brno on Moravian Square [cs], the coalition officially started their campaign. Then-MP Dominik Feri launched a campaign targeting young voters and first-time voters called "I have a Voice" (Czech: Mám hlas.)[18] Reports of repeated sexual harassment, including allegations of rape allegedly committed by Feri, led to the removal of this part of the campaign’s website from the internet.[19] Following these developments, Spolu needed to find a replacement for Feri on their Prague list. The parties were sought someone capable of attracting liberal urban voters. One potential candidate was the Jan Čižinský, Mayor of Prague 7, from Praha Sobě, who had suspended his KDU-ČSL membership at the time. Čižinský’s supporters included Alexandra Udženija (ODS), Markéta Pekarová Adamová (TOP 09) and Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL), those opposed included Jana Černochová (ODS) and the Prague branches of KDU-ČSL and TOP 09.[20][21] Spolu also launched a new campaign targeting young voters called "We are going to Vote" (Czech: Jdeme volit) replacing the old "I have a Voice" campaing. Each party had its own main face of this campaign, Jiří Havránek (ODS), Radovan Gaudyn (KDU-ČSL) and Matěj Ondřej Havel (TOP 09).[22]
The chair of the Spolu coalition’s election campaign committee was ODS Deputy leader Zbyněk Stanjura[23], and the vice-chair was MEP and KDU-ČSL Deputy leader Tomáš Zdechovský, who also participated in the door-to-door campaign.[24]
Ahead of the election, opinion polls suggested that ANO 2011 would win, but in an electoral upset Spolu won the highest number of votes, and opposition parties won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.[25]
Formation of the government
The opposition parties signed a memorandum agreeing to nominate Spolu leader Petr Fiala for the position of prime minister.[26] On 9 November, President Miloš Zeman formally asked Fiala to form a new government.[27] On 17 November 2021, Fiala introduced Zeman to his proposed cabinet and Zeman agreed to appoint Fiala as the new prime minister on 26 November 2021.[28]
2022 Senate and Municipal elections
In November 2021, Fiala said he would like to continue with the Spolu coalition into the 2022 Senate and municipal elections.[29] On 14 June 2022, Spolu announced that the coalition would nominate 19 candidates in the senate elections.[30] Leadership of the three parties wanted Spolu to run together in municipal elections to show that it was not just a coalition for one election.[31] Spolu failed to recreate the coalition in most of the Czech regional capitals [cs]. The regional capitals where they ran together were: Prague, Ostrava, Plzeň, Olomouc, Pardubice and Karlovy Vary. In several cities, such as Ústí nad Labem or Brno the parties of the Spolu coalition ran under the name Společně,[32] which was dictated by a deal between the parties that prevented them from using the Spolu brand when one of the parties was missing from the coalition.[33]
| City | Coalition name | Leader | ODS | KDU-ČSL | TOP 09 |
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| Prague | SPOLU | Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Brno | SPOLEČNĚ | Markéta Vaňková [cs] (ODS) | Yes | No[a] | Yes |
| České Budějovice | SPOLEČNĚ[b] | Tomáš Bouzek [cs] (TOP 09) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hradec Králové | No | No[c] | No[d] | ||
| Jihlava | ODS and KDU-ČSL | Petr Ryška [cs] (ODS) | Yes | Yes | No[e] |
| Karlovy Vary | SPOLU | Jiří Vaněček (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Liberec | SPOLEČNĚ[f] | Petr Židek [cs] (ODS) | Yes[g] | No[h] | No[i] |
| Olomouc | SPOLU | Markéta Záleská [cs] (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ostrava | SPOLU | Jan Dohnal [cs] (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pardubice | SPOLU | Jan Mazuch (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plzeň | SPOLU | David Šlouf (ODS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ústí nad Labem | SPOLEČNĚ[j] | Zbyněk Novák (KDU-ČSL) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Zlín | KDU-ČSL with support of TOP 09[k] | Vojtěch Volf [cs] (KDU-ČSL) | No | Yes | Yes |
2023 Presidential election
In the 2023 Czech presidential election, Spolu endorsed three candidates: Petr Pavel, Danuše Nerudová, and Pavel Fischer.[35]
2024 European Parliament election and Regional elections
In the 2024 European Parliament elections, ODS, KDU-ČSL, and TOP 09 ran again as part of the Spolu coalition, which won six seats and finished in second place behind ANO 2011.[36] In some regions, parties ran as the SPOLU coalition in the 2024 regional elections, for example in the Central Bohemian Region, the South Moravian Region, and the Liberec Region.[37]
2025 Parliamentary election
On 28 October 2024, party leaders signed a memorandum and announced that ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 would continue as an electoral alliance for the 2025 parliamentary election.[38] Spolu received 23.4% of the vote, losing the election to ANO 2011.[39]
On 17 January 2026, following his election as leader of ODS, Martin Kupka announced that the alliance would remain dormant for at least four years.[40]
Composition
| Name | Ideology | Leader/Leaders | MPs | Senators | MEPs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Democratic Party | Conservatism | Martin Kupka | 27 / 200 |
19 / 81 |
3 / 21 | |
| KDU-ČSL | Christian democracy | Marek Výborný | 16 / 200 |
12 / 81 |
1 / 21 | |
| TOP 09 | Liberal conservatism | Matěj Ondřej Havel | 9 / 200 |
7 / 81 |
2 / 21 | |
Regional leaders in the 2021 election
| Region | Leader[10] | Election result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Party | Votes | Seats | ||
| Prague | Markéta Pekarová Adamová | TOP 09 | 40.0% | 11 / 23 | |
| Central Bohemian | Jan Skopeček | ODS | 28.7% | 10 / 26 | |
| South Bohemian | Jan Bauer [cs] | ODS | 29.1% | 5 / 13 | |
| Plzeň | Martin Baxa | ODS | 26.6% | 4 / 11 | |
| Karlovy Vary | Jan Bureš | ODS | 20.2% | 1 / 5 | |
| Ústí nad Labem | Karel Krejza [cs] | ODS | 19.8% | 3 / 14 | |
| Liberec | Petr Beitl [cs] | ODS | 22.8% | 2 / 8 | |
| Hradec Králové | Ivan Adamec [cs] | ODS | 28.6% | 4 / 11 | |
| Pardubice | Pavel Svoboda | TOP 09 | 28.5% | 4 / 10 | |
| Vysočina | Vít Kaňkovský | KDU-ČSL | 28.0% | 4 / 10 | |
| South Moravian | Petr Fiala | ODS | 30.0% | 9 / 23 | |
| Olomouc | Marian Jurečka | KDU-ČSL | 24.5% | 4 / 12 | |
| Zlín | Ondřej Benešík | KDU-ČSL | 27.8% | 4 / 12 | |
| Moravian-Silesian | Zbyněk Stanjura | ODS | 20.6% | 6 / 22 | |
Regional leaders in the 2025 election
| Region | Leader[41] | Election result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Party | Votes | Seats | ||
| Prague | Jana Černochová | ODS | 33.9% | 9 / 23 | |
| Central Bohemian | Martin Kupka | ODS | 24.3% | 7 / 26 | |
| South Bohemian | Jan Bauer [cs] | ODS | 23.6% | 3 / 12 | |
| Plzeň | Martin Baxa | ODS | 21.0% | 3 / 12 | |
| Karlovy Vary | Jan Bureš | ODS | 15.4% | 1 / 4 | |
| Ústí nad Labem | Michal Kučera [cs] | TOP 09 | 15.4% | 2 / 13 | |
| Liberec | Petr Beitl [cs] | ODS | 18.1% | 1 / 6 | |
| Hradec Králové | Matěj Ondřej Havel | TOP 09 | 23.6% | 3 / 11 | |
| Pardubice | Marek Výborný | KDU-ČSL | 23.6% | 3 / 11 | |
| Vysočina | Eva Decroix | ODS | 23.3% | 3 / 11 | |
| South Moravian | Petr Fiala | ODS | 27.2% | 7 / 24 | |
| Olomouc | Marian Jurečka | KDU-ČSL | 20.1% | 3 / 13 | |
| Zlín | Stanislav Blaha [cs] | ODS | 24.2% | 3 / 12 | |
| Moravian-Silesian | Zbyněk Stanjura | ODS | 18.0% | 4 / 22 | |
Election results
Chamber of Deputies
| Year | Leader | Vote | Vote % | Seats | +/- | Place | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Petr Fiala | 1,493,905 | 27.79 | 71 / 200 |
1st | Government | |
| 2025 | 1,313,346 | 23.36 | 52 / 200 |
Opposition |
Senate
| Election | Candidates | First round | Second round | Seats | Total Seats | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Runners-up | Place* | Votes | % | Place* | |||||
| 2022 | 31 | 360,539 | 32.40 | 19 / 27 |
1st | 233,294 | 47.80 | 1st | 19 / 27 |
42 / 81 |
Including Tábor 2020 candidate who ran under Spolu. |
Presidential
| Election | Candidate | First round result | Second round result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Result | Votes | % | Result | |||
| 2023[l] | Petr Pavel | 1,975,056 | 35.40 | 1st place | 3,358,926 | 58.33 | Won | |
| Danuše Nerudová | 777,080 | 13.93 | 3rd place | supported Petr Pavel | ||||
| Pavel Fischer | 376,705 | 6.75 | 4th place | supported Petr Pavel | ||||
European Parliament
| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alexandr Vondra | 661,250 | 22.25 (#2) | 6 / 21 |
New | ECR / EPP |
Local election
| Year | Vote | Vote % | Place | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13,362,433 | 21.76 | 1st | 5,974 / 61,780 |
Prague municipal elections
| Year | Leader | Vote | Vote % | Seats | +/− | Place | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bohuslav Svoboda | 5,828,523 | 24.7 | 19 / 65 |
1st | Coalition |
Notes
- ↑ KDU-ČSL ran with STAN
- ↑ full name: KDU-ČSL a TOP 09 - Společně pro Budějovice
- ↑ Ran under the name: Koalice pro Hradec
- ↑ TOP 09 ran together with LES, HP and HDK under the full name: Hradecký demokratický klub a TOP 09 s podporou Hradeckých patriotů a LES
- ↑ Ran together with Zelení under the name: Žijeme Jihlavou
- ↑ full name: ODS SPOLEČNĚ SE SPORTOVCI
- ↑ ran together with Sportovci
- ↑ ran together with SLK
- ↑ ran together with SLK
- ↑ full name: SPOLEČNĚ Ústí nad Labem
- ↑ full name: KDU-ČSL s podporou TOP 09 a nezávislých kandidátů
- ↑ The coalition supported 3 independent candidates for this election.
References
- ↑ Janko, Michal (9 March 2026). "Průzkum průzkumů: Rozpad Spolu a nová strana Kuby mají nezamýšleného vítěze". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 9 May 2026.
- ↑ "Czech election: Opposition wins surprise majority". Deutsche Welle. 9 October 2021.
- ↑ jh/kul. "ODS, TOP 09, lidovci a STAN ve sněmovně vytvoří Demokratický blok". ct24.ceskatelevize.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Premiér Babiš má hned dvě koalice, ODS k vládě nepotřebuje, říká Fiala". iDNES.cz. 21 December 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Milion chvilek chce od opozice narovnání volebních pravidel". iDNES.cz. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ TOP 09. "TOP 09, ODS, STAN a KDU-ČSL se zavázaly dodržovat pět pojistek právního státu". TOP 09 (in Czech). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
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- ↑ Zdechovský, Tomáš [@TomasZdechovsky] (17 January 2021). "Naší @SpoluKoalice @kducsl @ODScz @TOP09cz podpořilo další celostátní hnutí - #Nestraníci..." [Our @SpoluKoalice @kducsl @ODScz @TOP09cz was supported by another nationwide movement - #Nestraníci...] (Tweet) (in Czech). Retrieved 4 May 2026 – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Koalice SPOLU a SNK ED podepsaly memorandum o spolupráci". www.kdu.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Předsedové ODS, TOP 09 a KDU-ČSL podepsali koaliční smlouvu Spolu". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ Petrů, František (19 May 2021). "SPOLU cílí na mladé s kampaní Mám hlas. Vede ji Dominik Feri". Stisk online (in Czech). Masaryk University. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
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- ↑ "Jak nahradit Feriho? Koalice přemalovala dodávku a vyráží na festivaly". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). 4 August 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
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- ↑ "Czech opposition parties form majority alliance, sign memorandum for new government". Expats.cz. 10 October 2021.
- ↑ Mortkowitz, Siegfried (9 November 2021). "Czech president taps Petr Fiala to lead new government". Politico Europe. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ↑ "Fiala bude premiérem 26. listopadu, Zemanovi představil jména ministrů". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ↑ "Fiala chce udržet koalici Spolu i pro komunální a senátní volby v roce 2022". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ↑ "Koalice Spolu nasadí do senátních voleb celkem 19 společných kandidátů". Mladá fronta Dnes (in Czech). Mafra. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
- ↑ muh. "Vznikají koalice pro komunální volby. Mají ale jiné složení než ty pro loňské sněmovní". ct24.ceskatelevize.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 9 May 2026.
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{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Programy do voleb". Programy do voleb (in Czech). Retrieved 9 May 2026.
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- ↑ "Volby do Evropského parlamentu | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Volby do zastupitelstev krajů | volby.cz". www.volby.cz. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
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