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founded in October 2009 by

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, the former

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and former leader of the

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. Zeman was elected the

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in the second round of the

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. The party advocates

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and the

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. In 2014, Jan Veleba, elected as an

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in the

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, joined the party and became its chairman. In the

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, former JZD Slusovice chairman

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was elected as the party's second senator. It has never won a seat in the

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. In the

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, it participated in a coalition with Okamura's

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party and won 16 seats.

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