Christian Democratic Party (Czech Republic)

The Christian Democratic Party (Czech: Křesťansko-demokratická strana, KDS) was a Christian-democratic political party in the Czech Republic, functional between 1990 (founded shortly after the Velvet Revolution) and 1996.

The first congress was held in March 1990 and the former dissident Václav Benda was elected president of the new party.

In the first free Czechoslovak elections in June 1990, the party participated as part of the electoral coalition Christian Democratic Union (together with the Czechoslovak People's Party and the Slovak Christian Democratic Movement).

[1] In the parliamentary election in 1992, it participated on a common electoral list with the governing Civic Democratic Party.

[2] The KDS became part of the first government of Václav Klaus along with the Civic Democrats (ODS and ODA) and the KDU-ČSL.