Síť k ochraně demokracie

Síť k ochraně demokracie (shortened as Ochrana demokracie) is a Czech informal civil-society network founded in 2020 that connects prominent individuals and organizations from various fields. Its stated purpose is to monitor threats to democracy in eight key areas and to foster discussion, public presentation, and efforts toward remedy. The network is coordinated through the Rekonstrukce státu initiative and builds on its earlier project Mantinely demokracie. The network operates as an informal initiative without legal personality. Organizations that have joined include private companies as well as associations, non-profit organizations, and civic initiatives such as Centrum Paraple, Liftago, Divadlo Archa, Hlídač Státu, Hnutí DUHA, Glopolis, and the Czech Council of Children and Youth. The network is overseen by guarantors from various disciplines, including Pavel Pafko, Lída Rakušanová, Rut Kolínská, Petr Pithart, Magda Vašáryová, Václav Malý, Daniel Kroupa, and Eliška Wagnerová. According to its official website, the network brings together all those who care about healthy democracy and want to protect it, across the country and across the spectrum of opinion. It evaluates what troubles Czech democracy, cooperates long-term with leading experts, and informs the general public, media, and politicians about its findings. It creates space for discussion and seeks solutions, serving as a broad platform for finding agreement on the greatest opportunities and threats. It coordinates actors from the non-governmental sector and prepares the ground for necessary changes. It offers various ways to participate in the development of democracy and ensures the functioning of an action network for protection against threats. For those interested in closer cooperation from companies and civil society, it enables the sharing of essential information and concrete offers and offers joint meetings. The network's public activities include publishing expert opinions and reports, such as a 2026 report on the rule of law and a 2026 expert opinion on the draft law on financing public service media, which it says fundamentally threatens their independence and sustainable functioning. It also runs campaigns such as "Nechceme stát ve frontě!" (We don't want to stand in line!), urging citizens to tell politicians what they really need from the state. The network states that over 50 experts monitor developments in areas key to democracy, regularly monitoring and evaluating trends and possible threats in eight significant areas: defense, security and foreign affairs; the constitutional system; state prosecution and judiciary; human rights (social and others); and others.

Síť k ochraně demokracie was founded in 2020 as a Czech informal organization (association) connecting prominent individuals and organizations from various fields. Its aim is to monitor threats to democracy in eight key areas and to follow up with discussion, presentation, and efforts toward possible remedy. The organization is coordinated through the Rekonstrukce státu initiative and builds on its earlier project Mantinely demokracie. The network is an informal initiative without legal personality. Organizations that have joined the network include both private companies and many associations, non-profit organizations, and civic initiatives, such as Centrum Paraple, Liftago, Divadlo Archa, Hlídač Státu, Hnutí DUHA, Glopolis, and the Czech Council of Children and Youth. The functioning of the network is overseen by so-called guarantors from various disciplines, including Pavel Pafko, Lída Rakušanová, Rut Kolínská, Petr Pithart, Magda Vašáryová, Václav Malý, Daniel Kroupa, and Eliška Wagnerová. According to its official website, the network brings together all those who care about healthy democracy and want to protect it, across the country and across the spectrum of opinion. It evaluates what troubles Czech democracy, cooperates long-term with leading experts, and informs the general public, media, and politicians about its findings. It creates space for discussion and seeks solutions. It is a broad platform for finding agreement on the greatest opportunities and threats. It finds expert consensus, coordinates actors from the non-governmental sector, and prepares the ground for advancing necessary changes. It offers various ways to participate in the development of democracy. It ensures the functioning of an action network for protection against threats. For those interested in closer cooperation from companies and civil society, it enables the sharing of essential information and concrete offers and offers joint meetings. The network states that over 50 experts monitor developments in areas key to democracy, regularly monitoring and evaluating trends and possible threats in eight significant areas: defense, security and foreign affairs; the constitutional system; state prosecution and judiciary; human rights (social and others); and others. Its public activities include publishing expert opinions and reports, such as a 2026 report on the rule of law and a 2026 expert opinion on the draft law on financing public service media, which it says fundamentally threatens their independence and sustainable functioning. It also runs campaigns such as "Nechceme stát ve frontě!" (We don't want to stand in line!), urging citizens to tell politicians what they really need from the state.

• 2026

  Publication of the Rule of Law Report 2026 and an expert opinion on the draft law on financing public service media.

• 2020

  Síť k ochraně demokracie founded as a Czech informal organization connecting prominent individuals and organizations.

A broad, cross-spectrum civil-society platform for monitoring and protecting democracy in the Czech Republic.

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