Občanská demokratická strana

Placement: Center-right

Civic Democratic Party, conservative and economically liberal, founded by Václav Klaus: it led the Fiala government from 2021 to 2025 and is now in opposition, with Martin Kupka as leader since 2026. Balanced budgets, lower taxes, strong ties with NATO and support for Ukraine, moderate euroskepticism.

In short

On the traditional scale, Občanská demokratická strana sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on foreign policy: strongly towards “interventionism”; democracy: strongly towards “technocracy”; economy: fairly towards “market”; technology: fairly towards “acceleration”. On state and religion it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is liberal conservatism (94%).