In the Czech Republic, elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic will start on Friday afternoon. Voters will choose 200 representatives who are applying for their favor on the candidates of 26 political groupings. The polling stations will open at 14.00 ha voters will be able to cast their vote until 22.00. On the first day, all the leaders of the parties and the movements that surveys should get to the House, TASR reporters in Prague informs.
As stated by the CT24 station, This year, 4473 people are standing in the elections, of which 3073 men and 1400 women are. Most of the current legislators are also applying for the mandate – from 200 of them, 168 are re -candidate one of those who are no longer in favor of voters, for example, the end of the Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová, who justified it with health problems.
These are the first elections in which Czechs living abroad could take advantage of the correspondence election that the government of Petr Fiala introduced last year. According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from early September, more than 10,000 Czechs entered it, which was significantly less than the department expected. Approximately 27,500 were enrolled in the special list of voters at the embassies abroad.
According to surveys of election preferences that could be published in the Czech Republic last Monday, seven political groupings would be reached in the House. Since the beginning of the year, the agencies started to publish regularly, The leading position was held by the YES movement with a significant lead over the coalition together. Czech political scientists, which TASR addressed, do not expect this trend to turn to the last minute.
Just before the elections, there was also an important decision of the Constitutional Court on the so -called unrecognized coalitions, which was complained by the Volt Czech Republic. They concerned the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and was enough! The court ruled that the coalition is not and the parties have the right to choose the way they suit them. In practice, this decision means that although several parties are actually candidates on the candidates of these movements, they only need to get only five percent to join the House. A proper coalition of two parties by law needs eight percent and three or more – such as a coalition together – up to 11 percent of the votes.
