Is ANO left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation ANO scores +04 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +05. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is ANO authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, ANO scores +04. Fully within parliamentary institutions; conflict-of-interest disputes over the founder's holdings and media ownership.

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ANO

Babiš · 2011– · Czechia · Technocratic Populist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

+04ECmarket

+05CUtraditional

+04AUmonist

+03SCcentral

+05IDascriptive

−05CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Run the state like a firm: a billionaire-founded party promising managerial competence rather than ideology.

Economic model

Business-friendly taxation, EU subsidy absorption, pension and energy price support.

Organisation of powers

Fully within parliamentary institutions; conflict-of-interest disputes over the founder's holdings and media ownership.

Reading note

Populist in structure and centrist in policy, which is why it is coded near the middle on four of six axes.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +04

Coded +4: business-friendly taxation with pension and energy support.

Documented act or statuteAbolished the supergross tax base and capped energy prices in 2022.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +05

Coded +5: culturally conservative positioning without a doctrinal programme.

Programme textCampaigns on migration and against the Green Deal while avoiding social-moral legislation.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +04

Coded +4: fully parliamentary, with conflict-of-interest and media ownership disputes.

Documented act or statuteIts founder's holding company owned major newspapers while he was prime minister; a conflict-of-interest law followed.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +03

Coded +3: a unitary state with EU membership and scepticism of further integration.

Programme textOpposed the EU migration pact while supporting membership.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +05

Coded +5: migration restriction without an ancestral criterion.

Documented act or statuteOpposed EU relocation quotas from 2015.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −05

Coded −5: entirely electoral and coalitional.

Documented act or statuteLeft office after the 2021 election and returned by election in 2025.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Czechia

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). ANO. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/ano/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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