Social Democracy will be led by former minister Jana Maláčová. At the party congress in Hradec Králové, 101 of the 152 delegates present voted for her. They thus preferred Maláčová over her opponent Jiří Dienstbier, who received only 33 votes. For the first time, a woman will occupy the highest position in the party. He will try to reverse the party’s previous election results, which have been below the five percent threshold for a long time.
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Jana Maláčová will lead the Social Democrats | Photo: Anna Boháčová | Source: Mf Dnes + LN / Profimedia
According to Jana Maláčová, Social Democracy is fearful, invisible and inconspicuous. She already declared in advance that the party needs to be changed in such a way that it can once again attract the voters, whom, according to her, no one listens to.
In an interview for Aktuálně.cz from the end of September, Maláčová identified as one of the causes of the decline of the Social Democracy that the party became “useless” in politics.
“We allowed ourselves to be forced into a duality – whether we are more of a liberal or a conservative party. The lack of leftism on economic issues is the main problem. Most of all, we social democrats have to deal with voters’ wallets, their existential concerns. When people know that they can make a living with honest work and that they will receive quality health care, a fair pension and their children a good education for their taxes, then they believe in democracy and the whole society will flourish,” she described, saying that she wants to create a kind of alliance of left-wing parties.
Jana Maláčová at the Congress of Social Democracy in Hradec Králové | Photo: David Taneček | Source: ČTK
“For me, a great inspiration is what the leftist forces in France have done, which have united in the New Popular Front. We want to return the retirement age to 65 and restore the education allowance that I pushed for. I will work with those who want to do something about expensive housing, low wages and high taxes on labor. Not promises, but immediate actions,” she declared without elaborating with which specific parties she was planning this alliance.
But Maláčová did not deny that she would also be willing to negotiate with the chairperson of the communists (currently also of the Stačilo coalition!) Kateřina Konečná if elected. This would officially violate the Bohumínský resolution, by which the Social Democrats pledged in 1995 not to cooperate with several extremist parties, including the Communists.
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