チェコ共和国における「緑の党」の諸相

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The Czech Green Party was founded in 1990, but gradually marginalized and forgotten by both the voters and the media. A critical moment appeared when leading activists of environmental movements and former dissidents joined the party after 2002. In the 2006 election the Greens succeeded in getting 6.29 percent of the vote and six seats in the parliament. Clearly, this article aims to examine the party organization, its program and the internal relations of the Czech Greens.
The Czech Greens share common features of the New Politics party: electorate profiles and framework party. One feature, however, participatory party organization, is not fully applied to the party. With respect to the program, the Czech Greens have a distinct characteristic. While programmatic orientation of the New Politics is related to some left-wing policies, the program of the Czech Greens shows liberal orientation.
Since the party congress 2003 the presidium was dominated by leading activists of environmental movements. Because of their adamant way, sources of discontent accumulated between the party memberships, particularly former dissidents. In the congress 2005 the presidium was replaced by new chairman Martin Bursik and left the party. Under the new administration, the Czech Greens turned toward liberal tendency and aimed at entering government with Civic Democratic Party. Opposing to this course, former dissident Petr Uhl asserted that the Greens should be opposi-tion. Uhl played a fundamentalistic role in contrast with realistic position represented by Bursik.
It is impossible to forecast whether the Czech Greens would be maintained in the Czech party system. The Greens, however, could have the advantage of a member of the European Greens.