Christian Democratic Party (Czech Republic)


The Christian Democratic Party was a christian-democratic political party in the Czech Republic, functional between 1990 and 1996.
Its first chairman was Václav Benda, the last chairman from 1993-1996 the former Minister of Education Ivan Pilip.

History

The KDS was established 1989/90 by a group of intellectuals and dissidents. The first congress was held in March 1990 and the former dissident Václav Benda was elected president of the new party.
In the first free Czechoslovak elections in June 1990, the party participated as part of the electoral coalition Christian Democratic Union. The coalition won 8.4% of the votes and 20 seats in the Czech National Council.
In the parliamentary election in 1992, it participated on a common electoral list with the governing Civic Democratic Party. The coalition won 29.7% of the vote and 76 seats in the Czech National Council. The KDS became part of the first government of Václav Klaus along with the Civic Democrats and the KDU-ČSL.
In 1996, it merged into the Civic Democratic Party.

Election results