the founder and the leader of the movement is václav klaus jr., a member of the chamber of deputies who was expelled from the civic democratic party (ods) on 16 march 2019. his father and the movement's chief foreign policy adviser is václav klaus, an economist and politician who served as the second president of the czech republic from 2003 to 2013, the first prime minister of the sovereign czech republic and the second and last prime minister of the czech republic, federal subject of the czech and slovak federative republic, from july 1992 until the dissolution of czechoslovakia. václav klaus sr. was also the founder and original ideologist of ods.