In the December 2002 local elections, two mayors were elected for OKS. In addition, OKS took 20 deputy seats, or 0.1% of the seats nationwide. In July 2003, it was one of four parties across Europe endorsing the soft eurosceptic Prague Appeal, along with the British Conservative Party, Law and Justice of Poland, and the Czech Civic Democrats.[10]
OKS offered to run on the common candidate list with the Christian Democratic Movement in the 2006 parliamentary election. This offer was turned down by the KDH, the Civic Conservatives had to raise 500,000 korún as a fee for the party to participate. In March 2006, OKS member Ondrej Dostál applied to the Constitutional Court, considering the possible unconstitutionality of the election participation fee, saying the fee affects his right to run for office. In the election, former Chairman of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court Ernest Valko and former Minister of Health Rudolf Zajac appeared on the OKS list. The party obtained 6,262 votes which represented 0.27% share of the total vote.
In the 2010 election, fourteen OKS members stood on the Most–Híd party list. Strongly defining themselves as against the left-wing nationalist coalition,[11] four MPs were elected from the list, along with ten Most–Híd members. This gave the OKS its first parliamentary representation since 2002. Most–Híd entered a centre-right coalition government, which the Civic Conservatives supported, but the OKS did not join the government themselves, and remained separate from Most–Híd.[11]
In August, the party objected to coalition plans for tax reform, calling instead for closing tax loopholes and funding lower taxes by cutting government spending.[12] In October 2010, Peter Zajac called for Dobroslav Trnka to step down as General Prosecutor, after Trnka criticised Interior Minister Daniel Lipšic and other officials,[13] saying that Trnka did not respect the law or the human rights of ethnic Hungarians.[14] The party supported changes to the controversial State Language Act, but the OKS's Ondrej Dostál said the changes did not go far enough in allowing use of minority languages.[15]
In March 2011, the party opposed the government's plans to increase taxes on the self-employed,[16] and instead proposed funding cuts in payroll tax by cutting government spending.[17] The four OKS MPs have proposed a law restricting the government's power to build highways on privately owned land, which had earlier been ruled unconstitutional.[18]
In October 2011, the party opposed the government's commitment to the European Financial Stability Facility. In response, František Šebej left the OKS on 11 October and joined Most–Híd.[19] After the subsequent fall of the government, the OKS attempted to renew their alliance with Most–Híd at the 2012 election, but were rejected.[20] Instead, several OKS candidates were running on the Ordinary People list. However, they had left the list before the elections, in protest to the request of the leader of Ordinary PeopleIgor Matovič, that all candidates from the list undertake polygraph test.
The party advocates respect for people regardless of their religion, race and nationality. Their aim is to pursue conservative values stemming from the inner need of individuals to live in a world whose highest value is personal freedom tempered by personal responsibility and an awareness of personal obligations towards society.
The OKS characterizes itself as a party of reforms. According to its platform, it rejects:
It respects the historical memory as a part of the national culturalidentity and thus rejects lining up behind autocracy, communism and fascism.
The stated aim of the OKS is to pursue the system of European conservative values such as consistency, veracity, fairness, honesty, respectability, solidarity, and observance of written and non-written treaties and agreements.
Since the 2020 parliamentary elections OKS has two Members of the National Council. Ondrej Dostál, party leader, and Radovan Kazda were elected on the party list of Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS).
^Grigorij Mesežnikov; Miroslav Kollár; Michal Vašečka (29 June 2010). Nations in Transit 2010 - Slovakia. Freedom House. p. 484. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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