Election to the House of Representatives in the Czech Republic in 2006
The 2006 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic took place on June 2nd and 3rd, 2006. In the election, the members of the House of Representatives were redefined.
Electoral system
The House of Representatives was elected using proportional representation. There was a 5% threshold . The legislative period was 4 years.
Participating parties
A total of 26 different parties ran for election.
Survey
| Institute | date | ODS | ČSSD | KSČM | KDU-ČSL | SZ | SNK-ED | US-DEU | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVVM | 05/19/2006 | 32.0% | 28.0% | 15.5% | 5.5% | 10.5% | 2.5% | 0.5% | 5.5% |
| CVVM | 04/20/2006 | 31.5% | 27.0% | 15.5% | 11.5% | 12.0% | - | - | 2.5% |
| CVVM | 03/24/2006 | 32.5% | 26.5% | 16.0% | 8.0% | 13.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 3.0% |
| CVVM | 03/01/2006 | 36.0% | 29.0% | 14.5% | 10.0% | 8.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1.5% |
| CVVM | 02/02/2006 | 36.0% | 35.0% | 14.5% | 8.0% | 3.0% | - | 1.0% | 2.5% |
| CVVM | 12/22/2005 | 37.0% | 30.5% | 16.0% | 10.0% | 3.5% | - | 0.5% | 2.5% |
| CVVM | 12/01/2005 | 33.5% | 31.5% | 16.5% | 10.0% | 4.5% | - | 0.5% | 3.5% |
| CVVM | 11/01/2005 | 37.0% | 28.5% | 18.5% | 9.5% | 3.0% | - | 1.0% | 2.5% |
| CVVM | 09/22/2005 | 37.5% | 29.5% | 16.0% | 8.0% | 4.0% | - | 1.0% | 4.0% |
| CVVM | 07/28/2005 | 37.5% | 24.0% | 18.0% | 10.5% | 2.5% | - | 1.0% | 5.5% |
| House of Representatives election | 06.2002 | 24.5% | 30.2% | 18.5% | 14.3% | 2.4% | 2.8% | - | 7.0% |
Election result
The Democratic Citizens Party (ODS) was the clear winner of the election. With 35.38% of the votes cast, it received the most seats in the House of Representatives and at the same time recorded the largest increase in votes of 10.91%. The Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) also received a slight increase in votes , but was still only the second strongest force. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) recorded a significant loss of votes . The Christian Democratic People's Party (KDU-ČSL) also suffered a loss of votes, but since it entered into an alliance and a joint electoral list with the Freedom Union in 2002 , these losses were not considered too severe: while the KDU-ČSL was only slightly behind their results remained behind, which it traditionally retracted as a single party before 2002, this election means the de facto disappearance of the previous ruling party, the Freedom Union, from the political scene. They only received 0.3% of the vote. In return, the party of the Greens (SZ) managed to jump over the 5% hurdle for the first time with 6.29% and thus entered parliament.
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Democratic Citizens Party (ODS) | 1,892,475 | 35.38 | +10.91 | 81 | +23 | |
| Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) | 1,728,827 | 32.32 | +2.12 | 74 | +4 | |
| Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) | 685.328 | 12.81 | −5.70 | 26th | −15 | |
| Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL) | 386.706 | 7.23 | −7.04 | 13 | −18 | |
| Party of the Greens (SZ) | 336,487 | 6.29 | +3.93 | 6th | +6 | |
| SNK European Democrats (SNK-ED) | 111,724 | 2.09 | −0.69 | - | - | |
| Independent Democrats (NEZ / DEM) | 36,708 | 0.69 | New | - | New | |
| Independent | 33,030 | 0.62 | New | - | New | |
| Party of Reason (SDR) | 24,828 | 0.46 | +0.24 | - | - | |
| Right block (PB) | 20,382 | 0.38 | −0.21 | - | - | |
| Freedom Union - Democratic Union (US-DEU) | 16,457 | 0.31 | - | - | −10 | |
| Law and Justice (PaS) | 12,756 | 0.24 | New | - | New | |
| Moravané (M) | 12,552 | 0.23 | New | - | New | |
| Party for Equal Opportunities (SRŠ) | 10,879 | 0.20 | New | - | New | |
| National Party (NS) | 9,341 | 0.18 | New | - | New | |
| Coalition for the Republic (KpČR) | 8,140 | 0.15 | New | - | New | |
| Czech crown ("KČ") | 7,293 | 0.14 | New | - | New | |
| Balbín's Poetic Party (BPS) | 6,897 | 0.13 | −0.06 | - | - | |
| 4 VIZE - www.4vize.cz | 3,109 | 0.06 | New | - | New | |
| Czech National Socialist Party (ČSNS 2005) | 1,387 | 0.03 | New | - | New | |
| Helax - Ostrava se baví (HOB) | 1,375 | 0.03 | New | - | New | |
| Humanist Party (HS) | 857 | 0.02 | New | - | New | |
| Folklore and Society (FiS) | 574 | 0.01 | New | - | New | |
| Czech rights (ČP) | 395 | 0.01 | −0.03 | - | - | |
| Liberal Reform Party (LiRA) | 253 | 0.00 | New | - | New | |
| Czech Movement for National Unity (ČHNJ) | 216 | 0.00 | New | - | New | |
| total | 5,348,976 | 100.00 | 200 | |||
| Valid votes | 5,348,976 | 99.64 | +0.08 | |||
| Invalid votes | 19,519 | 0.36 | −0.08 | |||
| voter turnout | 5,368,495 | 64.47 | +6.47 | |||
| Non-voters | 2,964,810 | 35.53 | −6.47 | |||
| Eligible voters | 8,333,305 | |||||
| Source: Czech Statistical Office | ||||||
Government formation
After the elections, the Czech Republic was paralyzed by the difficult majority situation, because both the "bourgeois" camp consisting of ODS, KDU-ČSL and SZ and the "left" camp consisting of ČSSD and KSČM had 100 out of 200 seats. Both the incumbent Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek and the ODS Chairman Mirek Topolánek claimed the office of Prime Minister. This led to a constitutional crisis because the newly elected parliament did not constitute itself for several weeks. Because of the majority situation, no candidate for the office of President of the Chamber of Deputies found the required majority. The candidates proposed by the bourgeois camp, Miroslava Němcová, and all the substitute candidates who were nominated failed because of the unity of the left camp. As part of a compromise between the two camps, the Social Democrat Miloslav Vlček was first elected "provisionally" as parliamentary president, in order to at least enable the constitution of parliament. Vlček remained in office until shortly before the following parliamentary elections in 2010.
Forming a government was also difficult. After the constitution of the parliament, Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek speculated on a continuation of his existing government with the KDU-ČSL as a minority government with the tacit tolerance of the KSČM . However, this was rejected by the Christian Democrats. In September 2006, President Václav Klaus commissioned the ODS chairman, Mirek Topolánek, to form a government, who, due to the lack of a bourgeois majority, was also trying to establish a minority government and was hoping for support from the Social Democrats through an opposition treaty. His government , made up of ODS representatives and non- party members , was not confirmed by parliament because of resistance from the Social Democrats. It was not until the beginning of 2007 that Topolánek was able to form a majority-capable government made up of ODS, KDU-ČSL and SZ, as two MPs had left the ČSSD parliamentary group and tacitly tolerated the government. This meant that a total of 230 days had passed between the elections and the formation of a parliamentary government.
However, this government was overthrown in spring 2009 by a destructive vote of no confidence. Due to the difficult political majority situation, a non-party transitional government was formed under Jan Fischer , which was to lead the country to early elections in October 2009, which should be made possible by the self-dissolution of the chamber. These elections, however, were the beginning of September the Constitutional Court stopped because the Czech constitution at the beginning of the legislature not to dissolve itself right had provided the Chamber of Deputies and the elected parliament therefore enjoyed grandfathering. Especially since the Constitutional Court had allowed parliament to dissolve itself as an "exceptional case" as early as 1998 and had asked the constitutional legislature for the future to explicitly anchor a right to dissolve itself in the constitution if it were desired. However, that had not happened. The legislative period therefore lasted until the regular elections in May 2010 and Fischer's government remained in office.
Web links
- House of Representatives (Czech, English)
- Election results - Czech Statistical Office (Czech, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Official result of the 2006 House of Representatives elections Czech Statistical Office (English)
- ↑ Voličské preference v květnu 2006 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v dubnu 2006 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v březnu 2006 ( Memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v únoru 2006 ( Memento from January 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v lednu 2006 ( Memento from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v prosinci 2005 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v listopadu 2005 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v říjnu 2005 ( Memento from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference v září 2005 ( Memento from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Stranické preference na přelomu června a července 2005 ( Memento of 7 December 2016 in the Internet Archive ) CVVM , PDF file (Czech)
- ↑ Christian Democrats break off negotiations - the Czech Republic on the way to new elections . radio.cz. August 28, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ↑ Seven months after the elections: Finally a cabinet . radio.cz. January 22, 2007. Accessed February 1, 2014.
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