Tricolour Citizens' Movement
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The Tricolour Citizens' Movement (Czech: Trikolóra hnutí občanů, Trikolóra) is a hard Eurosceptic, fiscally conservative, and national-conservative political party in the Czech Republic.[10][11]
Tricolour Citizens' Movement Trikolóra hnutí občanů | |
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Abbreviation | Trikolóra |
Leader | Zuzana Majerová |
Deputy Leaders | Jan Tesař |
Founder | Václav Klaus Jr. |
Founded | 25 June 2019 (2019-06-25) |
Split from | Civic Democratic Party |
Headquarters | Freyova 82/27, Praha 9 – Vysočany |
Think tank | Center for Civil Liberties[1] |
Membership (2020) | 1,774[2] |
Ideology | National conservatism[3][4] Social conservatism Fiscal conservatism[5] Laissez-faire capitalism[6] Klausism Hard Euroscepticism[7] |
Political position | Right-wing[8] to far-right[9] |
Colours | Tricolour of white, red and blue |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 200 |
Senate | 0 / 81 |
European Parliament | 0 / 21 |
Regional councils | 1 / 675 |
Governors of the regions | 0 / 13 |
Local councils | 1 / 61,892 |
Prague City Assembly | 0 / 65 |
Website | |
www.volimtrikoloru.cz | |
The founder and the former leader of the movement is Václav Klaus Jr., a former member of the Chamber of Deputies who was expelled from the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) on 16 March 2019. The movement's chief foreign policy adviser is his father Václav Klaus, an economist, politician, and former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. Klaus Sr. was also the founder of ODS.[12][13][14][15]
The party contested the 2021 legislative elections as part of the Trikolora Svobodní Soukromníci electoral alliance.