Czech Crown (Monarchist Party of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia) (, KČ) is a Czech monarchist political party that strives for the restoration of Czech monarchy with the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The party was founded in 1990 and its current leader is Radim Špaček. In the 2017 Czech legislative election Koruna Česká ran in a coalition with TOP 09 and received 5.35% of the votes. In the 2019 European Parliament election it ran together with KDU-ČSL and received 7.24% of the votes. History Political movement Koruna Česká is one of the oldest active political parties in the Czech Republic founded after the end of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Its precursor was a monarchist civic initiative České děti ("Czech Children") founded in 1988 by Petr Placák as a dissident group against the communist regime. They published a samizdat magazine called Koruna. Koruna Česká as a political movement was founded on 25 November 1990 in Švanda Theatre in Prague, officially named Czech Crown (Royalist Movement of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). Dalibor Stejskal was elected as its first leader. On 14 December 1991 the first General Assembly of Koruna Česká convened. In 1993 KČ formed a political partnership with the Christian Democratic Party of Václav Benda and in the following years they closely cooperated, until the latter merged into the Civic Democratic Party in 1996. The second leader of KČ was Dalibor Pták (1997–1999) and the third one was Milan Schelinger (1999–2003), a musician and brother of a famous Czech rock Singer Jiří Schelinger. In 2003 KČ was transformed from a political movement into a political party. Political party In May 2003 Schelinger resigned as the leader of the party and in November 2003 Václav Srb, who had been the party's hejtman of Bohemia was elected as the new leader. Since 2004 the party actively contested in every elections. In 2006 Czech municipal elections they gained first local councillors and mayors. While in the early years, the official position of KČ was that they have no authority to decide who would be the new Czech king, in 2007 KČ clarified its monarchist position as legitimism (actively supporting the claim of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as descendants of Charles I of Austria, the last King of Bohemia). In 2011 KČ suffered an internal crisis when a "conservative platform" was formed, critical of the policy of the party and striving to shift its political position