Tuesday 25th anniversary of breakup of Civic Forum

Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of the breakup of the Civic Forum. It was founded as a loose opposition grouping during the Velvet Revolution before subsequently winning the first free elections in Czechoslovakia in over four decades in 1990. Different political streams gradually emerged and the establishment on 23 February 1991 of the Civic Democrats, who became the main right-wing force in Czech politics, and the Civic Movement, a centrist party that failed to enter Parliament at the next elections in 1992, marked its end.

Author: Ian Willoughby