Green Party (Czech Republic)

The Green Party was founded in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution. However, the party remained on the political margins until Jaromír Štětina won a seat in the Czech Senate in 2004. At this time, the Greens campaigned on a platform of pacificism (rejecting the hosting of foreign military bases in the Czech Republic) and greater incorporation of grassroots democracy in the country. In the 2010 elections, the Green Party lost all its seats in both chambers. In the party's 2022 leadership election, the incumbent co-leaders, Magdalena Davis and Michal Berg, were elected for another term. In the party's November 2024 leadership election, Gabriela Svárovská and Matěj Pomahač were elected. In June 2025, the party signed a cooperation agreement with the Czech Pirate Party, which will see around 30 Green Party candidates standing on Pirate Party candidate lists for the 2025 Czech parliamentary election. ==Policies==

Some of the policies in the party's 2025 program include: more renewable energy, investment in public infrastructure, cheaper and more reliable public transport, ending state subsidies to fossil fuel oligarchs, lowering value-added tax (VAT) on basic and healthy foods, nappies, hygiene products and other necessities, tackling corruption, ensuring large companies pay their fair share of taxation, regulating cannabis, legalising same-sex marriage, and 200,000 new ecological homes for "ordinary people" with a mix of ownership types, including resident owned, cooperative, rental and municipal with extended state support. ==Election results==

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic Senate • 1996 Senate: no seats • 1998 Senate: no seats • 2000 Senate: no seats • 2002 Senate: no seats • 2004 Senate: 1 seat (Jaromír Štětina) • 2006 Senate: no seats • 2008 Senate: no seats • 2010 Senate: no seats • 2012 Senate: 1 seat separately (Eliška Wagnerová) and 1 seat together with Pirates and KDU-ČSL (Libor Michálek) • 2014 Senate by-election: 1 seat (Ivana Cabrnochová) together with Social Democrats • 2014 Senate: 2 seats • 2016 Senate: 1 seat, 1 together with Christian Democrats (Petr Orel) and 1 together with Pirates and local Prague movement HPP11 (Ladislav Kos) • 2018 Senate: 1 seat • 2020 Senate: 1 seat • 2022 Senate: 0 seats • 2024 Senate: 1 seat, 1 together with TOP 09, ODS and Pirates (Břetislav Rychlík) Presidential European Parliament ==Logos==

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