The (
Political Party in the
Czech Republic .
After
1989 for the first time the party formed the
Government in
1998 , under the leadership of
Miloš Zeman , and is still in power now, although this is likely to change after elections in late spring of 2006.
It won the elections of
2002 with 70 of 200 representatives in the lower house of the Czech
Parliament . Its member
Jiří Paroubek is the
Prime Minister , heading a
Coalition with two smaller parties, the
Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party and the
Freedom Union-Democratic Union . The current chairman of the party is
Bohuslav Sobotka whose predecessor
Stanislav Gross resigned after a scandal in which he was unable to explain the source financial resources used to pay for his home. Gross's predecessor
Vladimír Špidla was forced to resign in
2004 after the ČSSD lost in European Parlimentary elections.
- 1878 – 1893 Czechoslavonic Social-democratic Party in Austria (''Sociálně-demokratická strana českoslovanská v Rakousku'') - part of Social Democratic Party Of Austria
- 1894 – 1918 Czechoslavonic Social Democratic Worker´s Party (''Českoslovanská sociálně demokratická stranu dělnická'') - independent party
- 1918 – 1938 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Worker´s Party (''Československá sociálně demokratická strana dělnická'') - merged with Slovak Social Democrats
- 1938 – 1941 National Work Party (''Národní strana práce'') - united left party of social democrats and part of National Socialists
- 1945 – 1948 Czechoslovak Social Democracy (''Československá sociální demokracie'')
- 1948 – 1989 - merged with Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia , concurrenty existed as exile party with headquarter in London
- 1990 – 1993 Czechoslovak Social Democracy (''Československá sociální demokracie'')
- since 1993 Czech Social Democratic Party (''Česká strana sociálně demokratická'')
