{"id":30050,"date":"2025-06-26T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnews.cz\/?p=30050"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:08:39","slug":"smarda-criticizes-the-socdem-leadership-for-cooperation-with-the-movement-it-was-enough-for-other-members-to-leave-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/politika\/smarda-kritizuje-vedeni-socdem-za-spolupraci-s-hnutim-stacilo-stranu-opousteji-dalsi-clenove\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160marda criticizes SOCDEM leadership for cooperation with the Sta\u010dilo! movement, more members leave the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRAGUE - The leadership of Social Democracy is facing harsh criticism over its decision to establish cooperation with the leftist Sta\u010dilo! movement, which includes members of the former Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. Michal \u0160marda, the party's former chairman, was very critical of the plan and called it a mistake. In his view, it is a departure from the values on which SOCDEM has historically stood.<br>\u0160mard's disappointment is shared by other party members. The decision to leave the party because of this strategy was joined by Pardubice Governor Martin Netolick\u00fd. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\"This move is beyond the edge of acceptable for me. Social Democracy should not associate itself with the radical left,\" he said. According to available information, several long-time members have left the party. Some officials remain reticent in their assessment. Wednesday's announcement by chairwoman Jana Mal\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1 that SOCDEM will seek closer cooperation with the \"Enough!\" movement was described as a surprise by some of those approached. Others declined to comment on the move. Former MP and Senator Alena Gajd\u016f\u0161kov\u00e1 initially considered the decision a logical move in light of the efforts to unite the left-wing forces. However, she later reconsidered her position and joined the critics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, the chair of the regional organization of SOCDEM in the Karlovy Vary Region, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Svoboda, expressed support for Mal\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1's plan. In his view, the merger with the Sta\u010dilo! movement is a chance to reach voters who have lost confidence in traditional left-wing parties.<br>The decision to cooperate comes at a time when SOCDEM is facing a long-term decline in preferences and is seeking to return to the political scene. The question remains whether the current strategy will help the party win back lost voters or lead to a further weakening of its membership base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>gnews.cz - GH<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE - The leadership of Social Democracy is facing harsh criticism over its decision to establish cooperation with the leftist Sta\u010dilo! movement, which also includes members of the former Communist Party...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politika"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}