THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY PROGRAMME*
With conservatism towards liberty, justice,
fairness and prosperity.
We insist that the 20th century totalitarianisms -
nazism and communism - acted as direct revolt against truth, human nature,
dignity and freedom and that is why we are morally obliged to fight them until
their complete suppression. We refuse socialism of any kind because of its
illusion that the happiness and wealth of citizens could be provided by broad
state powers, of its naive aspiration to reach forced egality at the cost of
violation of freedom and dignity. We disagree to liberals because of their extreme
individualism without any regard neither to traditional bounds of men nor to
the truth of the existence of objective ideal overreaching all of us. We hold
truths inherited from our ancestors’ wisdom and experience and we want to hand
them over to the creativity and inventiveness of our descendants.
Twelve years after the velvet revolution the Czech
republic shows formal signs of a democratic state but in reality it is not as
such. Present days political and economical bosses often come from the former
ranks of power and the Secret Police and mostly are not democrats respecting
moral principles, written code of laws as well as unwritten rules of fair play.
We regard them unacceptable to go on governing the country because they have
abused their fellowcitizens’ credit of early 90’s and because at present they
treat these powers resulting from that credit as unlimited and exclusive ticket
for the parliament and government positions.
After the velvet revolution there were not created -
deliberately - conditions as for getting square with the communist past. The
political representants, and we mean those of the highest rank, did so after
the November of 1989 with the intention not to create an example that the abuse
of powers and crimes are to be punished. With that they created conditions for
their future immunity too. Everything that happened during 90’s was the natural
consequence of that.
We have professed the new right-wing policy and its
conservatism that lead to the ethical and economic superiority of the western
civilization and its victory in the Cold War. That broadened the room for
freedom including our homeland.
We understand our country’s elite neither as the
present political representation nor as closed intellectual circles, but our
fellowcitizens with no regard to the race, nationality, faith, sex or
education, people characterized by honesty, industriousness and the capability
of sacrifice and service, self-confident and liberal-minded. These citizens we
address and call them to help us step by step to strengthen democracy, freedom,
law and justice, morality and prosperity in our country.
We believe to succeed in doing so by enforcing and
fulfilling this programme together.
In the political sphere the Conservative Party wants
·
to enforce
return of morality into politics as well as into activities that saturate
politics.
·
to insist
that the responsibility of abuse of powers and of communist crimes should be
born by concrete persons including those who enabled their impunity during the
90’s because our country’s future is endangered if this will not happen. A
positive example for us is the denazification of Germany by victorious Powers
after the World War II, continuated by all successive governments of Germany.
The negative example is then missing debolshevization in the countries of the
former Soviet Union that led to corruption, criminality and the existence of
mafias in all spheres of social life.
·
to enforce
law to be demandable with no regard to social status of individuals demanding
it, with the intention to create social awareness that a crime is followed by
an immediate and just punishment.
·
to respect
absolute immunity of private possession except for that profited by illegal
manners.
·
to create
environment for the education of next generation on principles of Christian
values.
·
to support
the Czech citizens living without our state territory to be allowed to take
part in elections.
In relation to civil society the Conservative Party wants
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to start from
the awareness of the fact that the mediating civil structures, formed by the
plentiful network of associations, such as communal, hobby, charitable,
religious, educational, sporting and other, can secure natural differentiation
and variety of society as well as multiplicity of opportunities to realise
individual goals, form the counterbalance to the more and more expansive state
powers and false egalitarianism and prevent from breaking the society apart to
insulated individuals.
In the sphere of taxes the Conservative Party wants
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to enforce
equal 15 % tax for natural persons as well as for corporate bodies, with the
tax-free fundament of 180.000 Kc. This
enables well-balanced economical progress of the state and significantly
strengthens personal decision of citizens as for spending of their incomes.
·
to enforce
the value added taxes to be lowered from 22% to 17%
·
to enforce
cancelling the capital transfer tax for all inheritors, estate taxes for all
recipients and saving taxes as well as dividends taxes in order to prevent from
double taxing.
·
to enforce
consequent tax collecting and strict recourse of tax delinquency and tax
avoidance.
In economic policy the Conservative Party wants
·
to enforce
capitalism without adjectives, with consequent application of antimonopoly
policy and with non-bureaucratic as well as non-corruption environment
supporting small and medium enterprises, with minimal state interventions.
In agricultural policy the Conservative Party wants
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to demand
possessions illegally retained and misused by various joint stocks and other
agricultural and forestry corporations to be returned to their authentic
owners. We have been working on the fact that rural and forest landscape is not
only the environment for food production and resources but also the environment
for the whole of society to live in, and that agriculture is not primarily only
business but that it is a husbandry. To economize the soil demands long-term
responsibility and care which is best provided by family farms handed over from
a generation to the other one. This excludes neither modern forms of farming
nor association of these owners into co-operative farms of European type. The
agriculture transformation, as it was realized in the 90’s, has led neither to
recovery of natural ownership nor to long-term responsibility as for the
economizing the soil and forests.
·
to constitute
criteria for distribution of directed grants.
In social policy the Conservative Party wants
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to create
such social environment so that every citizen’s will and responsibility was the
major guaranty of his or her dignified life because excessive dependency on a
state social programme is a limitation of freedom, self-confidence and dignity.
Inadequate social conveniences can cause the loss of motivating and make a
citizen more and more depended on the providing role of the state. It is
immoral when a citizen demands from the state what should be the result of his
own work. That is why we will lay stress on strengthening of the traditional
family role in conviction that such a family is not a social problem but, on
the contrary, if it is functional and provided by sufficient room it itself is
capable to prevent social problems or to solve them.
·
to direct
social programmes towards disabled citizens who find themselves in a difficult
situation not by theirs own fault so that to enable them dignified living.
·
to make
possible that religious institution, charitable associations, foundations,
civil institutions as well as individuals can take share in social policy.
·
to enforce
retirement system reform based on the maximum reduction of the present
continual system (Pay As You Go) and the transition to the fund system. It is
necessary to separate retirement insurance system consistently from the state
budget. To start this retirement reform using the privatization revenues.
In health care policy the Conservative Party wants
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to enforce
democratization of health care system so that the representatives of the
insured participate in the health insurance management as well as in the
inspection of the public health care system.
·
to enforce
resolute levy of health premium.
·
to enforce
exact definition of standard and more than standard health care.
·
to support
additional insurance system that will justify the payer to afford more than
standard level of treatment and cure.
·
to enforce
the state and private health cares to be separated.
·
to
standardize top-level diagnostic installations on the base of broad consensus
of the health care community.
In the education, science, culture, religious matters as well as in the
monuments and nature preservation the Conservative Party wants
·
to enforce
good quality and free of charge basic school education as well as the child
education at home.
·
the state,
private and religious schools to be on the same level and to grant to private
and religious schools the same subsidies per pupil from public budgets as to
state schools.
·
to create
environment for the inspection of the educational process level.
·
to enforce
school-fees in the sphere of university school education together with the
state guaranteed conditions for low-interest loans. That enables much larger
number of students not only to acquire university education but will also lead
students to greater responsibility and the schools to higher standard of
education.
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to support
classification of higher education as schools "A" where the
scientific and research activities outweigh those of pedagogy that are
concentrated on postgraduate forms of study; schools "B" where both
activities are balanced and such schools are concentrated on master degree and
engineer forms of study; and finally schools "C" with only pedagogic
activities concentrated on bachelor forms of studies.
·
to support
scientific research to be divided into basic and applied, with grants for the
basic research settled by the academic community. The applied research
financing to be transferred into the private sector.
·
to support an
active role of the state in the protection and maintaining of national and
cultural monuments as well as working of the national and cultural
institutions.
·
to support
the church and the state to be separated, together with restitution claims
unconditionally settled, so that churches become financially independent and be
able to fulfil their religious and charitable mission.
·
to consider
nature protection one of the fundamental conditions of quality life.
·
to support
citizens’ general awareness of the proper ecology approaches.
In the home security sphere the Conservative Party wants
·
to enforce
the personal stabilization of the security forces as a priority for effective
covering of the home security in our country. We will enforce these forces to
be profoundly cleansed from those connected with the communist system who do
not perform the Verification act requirements and the Secret facts act as well
as those who did not pass the security tests.
·
to strengthen
the Police authority and at the same time to suppress consequently bribery
within the Police forces and the powers abusing as well.
·
to insist
upon the right to keep firearm for unblemished citizens.
·
to enforce
stricter punishments for violent act perpetrators and punish strictly street
vandalism as well as small crimes.
In the foreign policy and the defence the Conservative Party wants
·
to follow
vital interests of the Czech republic, i. e. to preserve and defend the present
political system within the country.
·
to enforce
our acting within NATO to be intensified and to secure our personal
representation to be more skilled and less perilous as for the security points
of view.
·
to enforce
the professional army to be established together with short-term but effective training
of men for the defence. The defence spendings should not be lower than 3 % of
the GHP.
·
to enforce
NATO to be strengthened and extended so that Slovakia, the Baltic states and
Israel should be admitted with the aim to secure effectively the Western
civilization; to oppose the Russia to be admitted into NATO.
·
after CR
becoming a member of EU, to oppose socialist and neo-communist tendencies and,
again, to enforce conservative principles.
·
to support
friendly relations to all neighbouring countries as well as to enforce those
president Benes decrees which were based on collective demerits to be vitiated
"from this moment forth" with no property claims to be constituted.
·
to support
military and political presence of the USA in Europe to be preserved.
·
to seek the
Transatlantic Zone of Free Trade Association to be established between the
North America and Europe.
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to enforce a
common Euro-American anti-missile system to be established.
·
to refuse
additional strengthening of the UNO.
Prague, the 16th of March 2002.