Marek Výborný has decided to resign from his post as Chairman of KDU-ČSL. He will continue in this position until an extraordinary Congress on 25 January 2020 elects the new leader of the Christian Democrats. His resignation for family reasons follows the sudden death of his wife in September 2019 that made him the only parent of three children. “Being a parent is more than a politician; family is more than politics. And as Christian Democrats, we do not want just to say it,” stated Výborný, when he explained his reasons on Czech television.
 

Following the decision of Pavel Bělobrádek to compete his mandate as Chairman of the Czech Christian Democrats KDU-ČSL after 8 years, the Moravian metropolis Brno hosted a Party Congress on  29-30 March 2019 to elect his successor and celebrate the 100-years-anniversary since the foundation of this second oldest Czech political party. 
 

Numbers of persecuted Christians in the world are clear. Even according to the most moderate non-governmental organization Open Doors, 215 million Christians in the world are persecuted. Four out of five people persecuted for religion reasons are Christians. According to this organisation, demonstrably about 3,000 Christians per year are murdered, other sources estimate the real number at almost 100,000 murders per year. Therefore, it is by far the largest genocide in the world, but Europe - considering itself to be a bastion of human rights - is hypocritically silent. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó has accepted my invitation to a conference on the persecution of Christians, among other things, to present a government program “Hungary helps” for supporting Christians. We state that in the face of Islamic expansion to Europe, we want to preserve the European way of life and we want to address the migration problem at the source. If we really mean it, then we can best do it via the help to the persecuted Christians in the countries where the migration tracks start.