Urza.cz
Nevolte Urza.cz (English: Don't Vote Urza.cz) is a Czech political party, founded by the anarcho-capitalist Martin Urza before the 2021 Czech legislative election.[1] He stated that he was running, but did not want to be elected.[2] The full, official name of the party is Urza.cz: Nechceme vaše hlasy; ke svobodě se nelze provolit. Odmítneme každou politickou funkci; nechceme totiž lidem nařizovat, jak mají žít. Máme jinou vizi. Jdeme jinou cestou – najdete ji na webu www.urza.cz. (meaning "Urza.cz: We don't want your votes; freedom cannot be invoked. We will reject any political function; we do not want to tell people how to live. We have a different vision. We are going in a different direction – you can find it on the website www.urza.cz.")
Program
The party rejects all political functions,[3] which it justifies by saying that no one should rule anyone by force. Even if elected, the party says it would refuse to accept any position, and would resign any mandate obtained in the event of election (if all the party's alternates gradually reject the mandate, this mandate will remain vacant until the end of the election period).[4]
The main goal of Urza.cz is to provoke a society-wide debate on what it argues is the harmful role of the state in certain areas, and the implementation of a free market in these areas.[5] The party further claims that the state interferes too much in the freedom of citizens, and should therefore limit itself. The ideas of the movement are based on anarcho-capitalism. Urza describes his political convictions in his work.[6]
History
Urza established the party in April 2021, when he began collecting signatures among his supporters.[citation needed] By July, 1,618 signatures had been collected (1,000 are needed to establish a political party), but the Ministry of the Interior rejected the first attempt to register the party. The movement therefore amended its statutes and the second attempt to register was successful.[7]
Tereza Urzová (née Sladkovská), the lead candidate in the Plzeň Region, was previously a member of Svobodní, and ran for the European Parliament in 2014.[8]
2021 elections
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The following persons are candidates in individual regions (the party is also specific in that, apart from the Plzeň Region, only one person is running for it in each region):[9]
Region | Candidate | Two candidates | ||
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Name | Party | Name | Party | |
Prague | Martin Urza | Urza.cz | ||
Central Bohemian | Jana Urzová | |||
South Bohemian | Klára Kárníková | |||
Plzeň | Tereza Urzová | Urza.cz | Miroslav Suchý | |
Karlovy Vary | Veronika Löbelová | |||
Ústí nad Labem | Anna Honzíková | |||
Liberec | Jitka Nyklová | |||
Hradec Králové | Jiří Lžičař | |||
Pardubice | Jana Isabella Růžičková | |||
Vysočina | Radka Mužíková | |||
South Moravian | Rosalie Stříbrná | |||
Olomouc | Lucie Komárková | |||
Zlín | Igor Bogdanov | |||
Moravian-Silesian | Kateřina Přibylová |
Election results
Chamber of Deputies
Date | Leader | Votes | Seats | Position | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | No. | ± | Size | |||
2021 | Martin Urza | 6,775 | 0.12 | 0 / 200 | ![]() | 17th | No seats |
European Parliament
Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | EP Group |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2024 | Martin Urza | 2,426 | 0.08 (#26) | 0 / 21 | New | − |
References
- ^ "O hlasy voličů se v říjnu bude ucházet 22 seskupení, méně než minule". ct24.ceskatelevize.cz. Czech Television.
- ^ "Urza: zakládám anarchistickou stranu, ale nevolte nás, peníze za hlasy možná spálím". yovicat.cz.
- ^ "Volby 2021: Nevolte Urza.cz". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television.
- ^ "247/1995 Sb. Zákon o volbách do Parlamentu České republiky". Zákony pro lidi (in Czech).
- ^ "Do Sněmovny chce anarchokapitalistka, konopná lékařka a rekordně žen". iDNES.cz. August 24, 2021.
- ^ Anarchokapitalismus: stát je špatný sluha, ale zlý pán (in Czech) (1st ed.). 2018. ISBN 978-80-270-1648-8. OCLC 1039843611.
- ^ "Díky za Vaše podpisy!". dfens-cz.com.
- ^ "Jmenné seznamy". volby.cz. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ "Jmenné seznamy". Czech Statistical Office.
External links
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- Official website
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- Bracketed numbers indicate numbers of seats in the respective chambers.
2021 (200 seats)
- SPOLU (71)
- ANO 2011 (71)
- PirStan (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (20)
- Independent (1)
2022 (81 seats)
- ODS-TOP 09 (35)
- Civic Democratic Party (23)
- TOP 09 (6)
- Independents (2)
- Svobodní (1)
- Mayors for the Liberec Region (1)
- ProMOST (1)
- Tábor 2020 (1)
- STAN (19)
- Mayors and Independents (15)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (2)
- Ostravak (1)
- Marek Hilšer for Senate (1)
- KDU-ČSL (12)
- ForRegion (6)
- ANO 2011 (5)
- Social Democracy (1)
- SEN 21-Pirates (6)
- SEN 21 (3)
- Czech Pirate Party (2)
- Hradec Králové Democratic Club (1)
- Independents (2)
- Independents (1)
2024 (21 seats)
- ANO 2011 (7)
- SPOLU (6)
- Přísaha (2)
- Stačilo! (2)
- Communist Party (1)
- SD-SN (1)
- Mayors and Independents (2)
- Czech Pirate Party (1)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (1)
2020 (675 seats)
- ANO 2011 (178)
- Civic Democratic Party (99)
- Czech Pirate Party (99)
- Mayors and Independents (69)
- KDU-ČSL (53)
- Social Democracy (37)
- Freedom and Direct Democracy (35)
- Mayors for Liberec Region (22)
- TOP 09 (19)
- Communist Party (13)
- Green Party (6)
- SNK European Democrats (5)
- Others (40)
- Agrarian Democratic Party
- Alliance for the Future
- Alliance of National Forces
- Club of Committed Non-Party Members
- Conservative Party
- Czech National Social Party
- Czech Republic in First Place!
- Czech Sovereignty
- Democratic Party of Greens
- Freeholder Party of the Czech Republic
- Hlas
- Independents
- Koruna Česká
- Law, Respect, Expertise
- The Left
- Liberal Alliance of Independent Citizens
- Liberal-Environmental Party
- Moravané
- Moravian Land Movement
- Motorists for Themselves
- National Democracy
- Order of the Nation
- Party of Common Sense
- Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia
- Right Bloc
- Swiss Democracy
- United Democrats - Association of Independents
- Urza.cz
- Volt Czech Republic
- Workers' Party of Social Justice
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