Czech Constitutionalist Progressive Party

{{Short description|Liberal Czech political party in Austria-Hungary (1909-1918)}}

{{more citations needed|date=December 2018}}{{Expand Czech|topic=hist|date=December 2018}}{{Infobox political party

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| name = Czech Constitutionalist
Progressive Party

| native_name = Česká strana státoprávně pokroková

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| leader1_title = Leader

| leader1_name = Antonín Hajn

| foundation = 20 April 1908

| dissolution = 10 February 1918

| merger = Czech Radical
Progressive Party
Czech Constitutionalist
Radical Party

| merged = {{nowrap|Czech Constitutional Democracy}}

| headquarters = Prague

| youth_wing =

| newspaper = Samostatnost
Pokroková revue

| ideology = Constitutionalism
Progressivism
Liberalism

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| country = the Czech Republic

}}

The Czech Constitutionalist Progressive Party ({{Langx|cs|Česká strana státoprávně pokroková}}) was a Czech political party in Austria-Hungary. The party was established in April 1909 by a merger of the Czech Radical Progressive Party and the Czech Constitutionalist Radical Party. The first leader of the party was Antonín Hajn, former leader of the Radical Progressives. The party spokesman was Lev Borský.

Program

The party was a radical upholder of the rights of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and supporter of democratization and economic reforms. The party ideology was liberalism, drawing inspiration from the ideas of the American Revolution and the liberal democracy the party saw in the United States. In May 1914, the party published a "Manifesto to Europe" where it proclaimed support to the Triple Entente. During World War I, the party was suspended. Many party members joined the Czech resistance in the Maffia organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.cojeco.cz/index.php?detail=1&s_lang=2&id_desc=16927&title=%C8esk%E1%20strana%20st%E1topr%E1vn%EC%20pokrokov%E1|publisher=Cojeco.cz|title=Česká strana státoprávně pokroková|language=cs|date=14 March 2000|accessdate=15 October 2018}}

In February 1918 the party merged into the Czech Constitutional Democracy which was later succeeded by the Czechoslovak National Democracy.Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p145 {{ISBN|0-313-23804-9}}

Electoral results

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Election year ! # of overall votes ! % of overall vote ! # of overall seats won ! +/– ! Leader
1911 \| 20,881 \| 0.46 \| {{Composition bar\|4\|516\|hex=#61635A}} \| style="text-align: center" \| {{increase}} 3 \| style="text-align: center" \| Antonín Hajn

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|+ Imperial Council

Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

! Leader

1911

| 20,881

| 0.46

| {{Composition bar|4|516|hex=#61635A}}