The Party of Civic Rights (Czech: Strana Práv Občanů, SPO), also referred to as Zemanovci ("Zemanites"),[2] was a centre-left,[3][4][5] left-wing populist[2] social-democratic[3] political party in the Czech Republic founded in October 2009 by Miloš Zeman, the former prime minister of the Czech Republic and former leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party.

The party advocated direct democracy[3] and the Nordic model.

[citation needed] In the 2014 Czech Senate election, former JZD Slusovice chairman František Čuba was elected as the party's second senator.

[8] It has never won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

In the 2016 Czech regional elections, it participated in a coalition with Okamura's Freedom and Direct Democracy party and won 16 seats.