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Template:Liberal party This Timeline of liberal parties in the Czech lands is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme. Parties printed in italic are parties outside the liberal spectrum. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necesary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party. When liberalism started in Bohemia and Moravia, the area was still part of Austria-Hungary. Liberals in the region started as part of the nationalist Národní Strana (National Party or Old Czechs), but from 1874 they formed their own parties. Czech liberals usually don't call themselves liberals, but prefer labels such as progressive or even national socialist (don't mix this label up with the German variant).

National Liberals

  • 1874: Liberals in the Czech part of Austria-Hungary seceded from the National Party and formed the National Liberal Party (Národní Strana Svobodmyslná), also known as the Young Czechs.
  • 1889: A faction of the National Party joined the National Liberal Party.
  • 1897: The ⇒ Radical Progressive Party seceded from the party.
  • 1899: The ⇒ Rule of Law Radical Party seceded from the party.
  • 1900: A faction seceded as the ⇒ Czech People's Party.
  • 1918: The party merged with the ⇒ Radical Rule of Law Party, the National Party and others into the Czech Rule of Law Democrats (Česká Státoprávnií Demokracie), renamed in 1919 as the Czechoslovak National Democrats (Československá Národní Demokracie).
  • 1924: A liberal faction left the party to form the ⇒ National Labour Party.
  • 1934: After the party developed into a national-conservative party, it joined the National Community (Národní Sjedonocení).

Progressives

  • 1887: A second faction of liberals seceded from the National Party and joined the ⇒ National Liberal Party in 1889.
  • 1900: This faction formed the Czech People's Party (Česká Strana Lidová)
  • 1906: The party absorbed the ⇒ Radical Progressive Party and was renamed Czech Progressive Party (Česka Strana Pokroková)
  • 1918: The party dissappeared, members joined the ⇒ Czech Rule of Law Democrats and the ⇒ Czech Socialist Party

Radical Progressives

  • 1897: The Radical Progressive Party (Strana Radikálně Pokroková) seceded from the ⇒ National Liberal Party
  • 1900: The party merged into the ⇒ Czech Progressive Party

Socialists

  • 1898: Socialists and left-wing liberals formed the National Social Party (Národně Sociání Strana).
  • 1918: The party was reorganized into the Czech Socialist Party (Česka Socialistická Strana) (Czech Socialist Party), from 1919 the Czechoslovak Socialist Party (Československá Socialistická Strana).
  • 1926: The party, which developed into a liberal party, absorbed the liberal ⇒ National Labour Party and was renamed the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party (Československá Národně Socialistická Strana)
  • 1948: The party continued as a communist satellite party under the name Czech Socialist Party (Česka Socialistická Strana). It regained a liberal profile in 1990, after the fall of the Communist regime.
  • 1993: The party was renamed the Liberal National Social Party (Liberalní Strana Národně Sociálni), but didn't play a role anymore.
  • 1995: The party merged with the ⇒ Free Democrats into the ⇒ Free Democrats-Liberal National Social Party.

Rule of Law

  • 1899: The Radical Rule of Law Party (Strana Radikálně Státoprávni) seceded from the ⇒ National Liberal Party
  • 1908: The party merged with a faction of the former ⇒ Radical Progressive Party into the Progressive Rule of Law Party (Strana Státoprávně Pokroková).
  • 1918: The party merged with the ⇒ National Liberal Party and others into the ⇒ Czech Rule of Law Democrats.

German Liberals

National Labour

  • 1924: A liberal faction of the ⇒ Czechoslovak National Democrats left the party to form the National Labour Party (Národní Strana Práce).
  • 1926: The party merged into the ⇒ Czechoslovak National Socialist Party

Free Democrats

See also

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