They're right in the center of the Cz political scene. The context is that we have very big gov't with lot of benefits, and (kind of, it's complicated) high ta

They're right in the center of the Cz political scene. The context is that we have very big gov't with lot of benefits, and (kind of, it's complicated) high taxes. In such situation left has nowhere else to go (defending status quo is not very popular), so it's full of (often stupid) populists. "Intellectual" elite is heavily leaning right, to the point of being anti-populist (they are regularly sacrificing votes just to virtue signal). Pirates seem like a non-bullshit party that tries to stray from both extremes. They had some PR fails (they sometimes seem amateurish), but mostly seem to be really good alternative for people wanting to limit the gov't but not cut it to little pieces.