House elections in the Czech Republic 2013

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Voter turnout 59.48% result (in%)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
20.45
18.65
14.91
11.99
7.72
6.88
6.78
3.19
9.30
Gains and losses
compared to 2010
 % p
 20th
 18th
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-1.63
+18.65
+3.64
-4.71
-12.50
+6.88
+2.39
+0.75
-4.22
Distribution of seats
       
A total of 200 seats

The 2013 House of Representatives election in the Czech Republic took place as an early election on October 25 and 26, 2013, after the House of Representatives decided to dissolve it on August 20, 2013.

Electoral system

The House of Representatives is elected using proportional representation. There is a 5% threshold . The legislative period is 4 years.

initial situation

The early elections were the result of a political crisis that paralyzed political events in the Czech Republic in the summer of 2013.

General election 2010

In the House of Representatives elections in the Czech Republic in 2010, the social democratic ČSSD performed much worse than predicted by the polls, even if it had the strongest parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. Instead of the left-wing government expected before the election, a center-right government consisting of ODS, TOP 09 and VV was formed . On June 28, 2010, President Václav Klaus appointed the chairman of the ODS, Petr Nečas , as the new Prime Minister and entrusted him with forming a government.

Prime Minister Nečas resigns

The well-educated Nečas government did not survive the legislative period despite an initially quite large majority. The VV resigned from the government in April 2012, whereby the spin-off LIDEM - liberální democé this initially secured a majority. However, due to the large number of non-attached MPs in parliament, the majority ratios had become confusing due to various parliamentary groups leaving. After Prime Minister Petr Nečas resigned in June 2013 due to a corruption and spying affair, the previous government partners ODS , TOP 09 and LIDEM agreed on a continuation of the coalition and nominated the chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies Miroslava Němcová as the new Prime Minister. For this purpose, they presented President Zeman with the signatures of 101 members of the governing parties (out of 200) in order to confirm the continued existence of the majority in the Chamber of Deputies. The opposition parties (ČSSD, KSČM and VV) have already spoken out in favor of early elections, which the governing parties rejected.

Appointment of Rusnok as prime minister

However, after talks with all party leaders, President Zeman disregarded Němcová's nomination and did not give the leader of the strongest party in parliament, the ČSSD, Bohuslav Sobotka, an order to form a government. Instead, Zeman appointed Jiří Rusnok , a minister close to him from his cabinet as prime minister from 1998–2002, as the new prime minister and instructed him to form a non-party " cabinet of experts" . Zeman justified this step by saying that he wanted to bring about early elections. Critics of both the previous government and the opposition, however, accused the president of undermining the parliamentary system of government. After the previous opposition failed to find a majority for its formal request for the self-dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies on July 18, 2013, it decided to support Rusnok's cabinet of experts as a better alternative to a possible Němcová government. Němcová and the representatives of the previous ruling coalition continued to insist that after the failure of the Rusnok government in the necessary vote of confidence in the House of Representatives, President Zeman should be commissioned to form a government.

Failed vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies

As expected, the Jiří Rusnok government did not receive the necessary majority of votes in the confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies on August 7, 2013 with 93 to 100 votes. However, the 101 MPs of the previous government coalition did not vote unanimously against the cabinet, which would have been seen as a sign of Němcová's support. 3 MPs from the previous government coalition did not take part in the vote. Formally, the Rusnok government did not receive the necessary support from the Chamber of Deputies and Prime Minister Rusnok submitted his resignation. President Zeman commissioned him - as announced before the vote - with the provisional continuation of the official business.

Dissolution of the Chamber

Following the vote of confidence, the previous government partners ODS , TOP 09 and LIDEM officially declared their coalition to be over. TOP 09 now declared itself ready to agree to a self-dissolution of the House of Representatives, which secured the 3/5 majority necessary for the dissolution. The Chamber of Deputies therefore dissolved itself with 140 to 7 votes (out of 200 members) on August 20, 2013, thus clearing the way for the early elections. Most of the MPs from the largest ruling party to date, the ODS , did not take part in the vote, and Parliament's President Miroslava Němcová voted against the dissolution. Until the swearing-in of a new cabinet after the election, the Jiří Rusnok government continues to act on a provisional basis and was controlled by the Senate during the period of the dissolution of the chamber in accordance with the Czech constitution .

Parties

A total of 23 parties ran for election, 17 of them nationwide.

The Československá strana socialistická was admitted to the election, but the requirements to file a list could not meet.

Survey

Institute date ČSSD KSČM SPOZ ODS TOP 09 KDU-ČSL VV SZ ANO Úsvit Pirati Others
CVVM 10/21/2013 26.0% 18.0% 3.5% 6.5% 9.0% 5.0% - 2.0% 16.5% 5.0% 2.5% 6.0%
STEM October 15, 2013 25.9% 13.3% 2.6% 8.6% 11.5% 4.5% - 2.6% 16.1% 5.9% 3.1% 5.9%
ppm factum 09/19/2013 26.2% 16.7% 5.1% 8.0% 13.8% 6.7% - 2.3% 10.9% 2.5% - 7.8%
Median 08/23/2013 32.0% 15.5% 5.0% 13.5% 15.0% 4.0% 3.5% 2.5% - - - 9.0%
Sanep 08/15/2013 27.9% 16.7% 7.2% 7.8% 13.1% 6.4% 0.3% 2.8% 2.6% 2.7% 2.4% 10.1%
Median 07/24/2013 34.0% 18.5% 3.0% 13.0% 15.0% 5.5% 3.0% 2.0% - - - 6.0%
Median 06/24/2013 32.5% 16.5% 3.0% 16.0% 17.0% 4.0% 3.0% 2.5% - - - 5.5%
ppm factum 06/21/2013 29.3% 16.1% 6.6% 8.0% 15.0% 7.5% 1.0% 3.5% - - - 13.0%
ppm factum 05/31/2013 24.9% 13.1% 7.2% 14.5% 16.2% 7.7% - 3.3% - - - 13.1%
Median 05/27/2013 32.0% 15.5% 4.0% 18.5% 15.0% 5.0% 2.0% 2.5% - - - 5.5%
Older polls
Institute date ČSSD KSČM SPOZ ODS TOP 09 KDU-ČSL VV SZ Others
ppm factum 04/30/2013 26.2% 13.6% 7.7% 14.8% 15.3% 7.1% - 3.2% 12.1%
ppm factum 04/04/2013 26.6% 14.3% 7.4% 13.7% 15.2% 7.0% 1.6% 2.7% 11.5%
Median 03/21/2013 30.5% 15.0% 5.5% 15.5% 17.5% 5.0% 1.0% 3.5% 6.5%
ppm factum 05.03.2013 25.9% 13.6% 7.5% 13.3% 16.5% 7.8% 1.5% 2.9% 11.5%
ppm factum 02/05/2013 24.6% 13.8% 7.4% 15.6% 14.5% 7.4% 0.9% 3.1% 12.7%
ppm factum 01/16/2013 24.0% 14.6% 6.6% 17.1% 11.1% 6.7% 1.4% 3.8% 14.7%
Median 12/29/2012 29.0% 16.0% 4.0% 22.5% 10.5% 5.0% 2.0% 2.0% 9.0%
ppm factum December 10, 2012 25.6% 16.3% 5.7% 15.7% 10.5% 6.4% 1.2% 3.7% 14.9%
Median 11/23/2012 27.5% 17.0% 5.0% 21.0% 11.5% 5.0% 2.0% 2.5% 8.5%
ppm factum 11/15/2012 25.1% 16.5% 5.3% 15.3% 11.8% 6.3% 1.1% 3.2% 15.4%
Median October 24, 2012 28.5% 16.5% 4.0% 20.0% 10.5% 4.5% 1.5% 3.0% 11.5%
ppm factum 10/22/2012 22.8% 16.4% 6.4% 17.1% 11.7% 5.6% 1.5% 3.1% 15.4%
Median 09/25/2012 25.5% 17.5% 4.0% 21.0% 10.5% 4.0% 2.0% 2.0% 13.5%
ppm factum 09/21/2012 21.5% 16.5% 7.6% 17.1% 10.3% 5.2% 2.0% 3.8% 16.0%
ppm factum 08/27/2012 21.0% 15.7% 7.6% 17.3% 11.9% 5.6% 0.9% 3.7% 16.3%
ppm factum 07/22/2012 22.7% 16.0% 5.4% 17.7% 12.6% 6.1% 1.7% 3.6% 14.2%
ppm factum 06/28/2012 22.7% 17.1% 5.5% 16.6% 13.0% 6.2% 1.1% 4.0% 13.8%
Median 06/22/2012 26.0% 18.0% 2.0% 22.5% 12.5% 4.5% 1.0% 3.5% 10.0%
ppm factum 05/29/2012 26.2% 18.1% 4.8% 15.3% 10.9% 6.6% 0.9% 5.1% 12.1%
Median 05/22/2012 32.5% 14.0% 2.0% 20.5% 11.5% 5.0% 2.0% 2.0% 10.5%
ppm factum 05/03/2012 27.3% 17.6% 3.4% 16.4% 10.7% 7.2% 1.2% 5.1% 11.1%
Median 04/24/2012 31.0% 13.0% 3.0% 19.5% 11.0% 6.0% 3.0% 2.0% 10.5%
ppm factum 04/05/2012 26.9% 14.9% 3.3% 17.2% 13.1% 6.0% 1.4% 4.5% 12.7%
ppm factum 03/08/2012 26.1% 14.4% 4.7% 18.4% 13.3% 4.2% 2.3% 3.9% 12.7%
ppm factum 02/13/2012 25.5% 14.9% 4.4% 19.4% 15.0% 4.3% 2.2% 4.1% 10.2%
ppm factum 12/02/2011 26.1% 15.8% 2.9% 18.8% 16.0% 5.4% 2.5% 4.0% 8.5%
House of Representatives election 05.2010 22.1% 11.3% 4.3% 20.2% 16.7% 4.4% 10.9% 2.4% - - 0.8% 11.0%

Result

Party with the highest number of votes by political district
  • ČSSD
  • ANO
  • TOP 09
  • KSČM

    • The election result reshaped the previous spectrum of Czech parties considerably: As in 2010, the social democratic ČSSD performed significantly worse than the polls (25–30%) predicted and achieved 20.5 percent, almost 2% less than in the previous elections and the worst Result since 1992. The second strongest party to date, the ruling conservative-liberal ODS, plummeted dramatically from 20.2 to 7.7%. This slump appears all the more violent when you put it in relation to the 2006 election result, when the party still received more than 35% of the vote. This bitter defeat can largely be traced back to the previous corruption affairs of the Petr Nečas government and, according to election observers, marks the end of the ODS as one of the two mainstream parties dominating the Czech party system. The previous government partner of the ODS, the bourgeois TOP 09 under the chairmanship of the long-standing Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg , suffered losses of 4.6% and still achieved 12.0 percent. The Communists (KSČM) gained over 3% and, with 15.6%, achieved a result that was roughly on par with the polls and for the first time since 2002 meant an increase in votes. The parties Úsvit by Tomio Okamura, each newly founded by entrepreneurs, and the populist ANO 2011 by Andrej Babiš performed surprisingly well for party foundations: The ANO 2011, which has not yet been successful in any elections, suddenly became the second strongest political force. The Christian Democrats succeeded after three years of absence the re-entry into the House of Representatives, which they had not listened to in 2010 for the first time since the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia. The SPOZ, supported by Miloš Zeman , and the SBB , supported by the former President Václav Klaus , who appeared in the election block "Cheer up", fell far short of expectations and clearly failed to make it into parliament. The Greens represented in parliament from 2006 to 2010 were again unable to make it into the House of Representatives despite slight gains. Even the People's Socialists, who had previously been represented in the Chamber of Deputies by two members who had stepped up from the ČSSD - leftists of the 21st century of the former Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek - remained far from a return to parliament. Věci veřejné, which was drafted for the first time in 2010, and its spin-off LIDEM also disappeared from parliament . However, both parties had already renounced their own candidacy due to the low election chances: Some of their members ran on other lists - among other things, members of the VV were re-elected to parliament on the Úsvit list.

    Results of the 2013 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic
    Political party be right Seats
    number % +/- number +/-
    Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) 1,016,829 20.45 −1.63 50 −6
    Action of dissatisfied citizens (ANO 2011) 927.240 18.65 New 47 New
    Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) 741.044 14.91 +3.64 33 +7
    Tradition, responsibility, prosperity (TOP 09) 596.357 11.99 −4.71 26th −15
    Democratic Citizens Party (ODS) 384.174 7.72 −12.50 16 −37
    Dawn of Direct Democracy (Úsvit) 342,339 6.88 New 14th New
    Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL) 336.970 6.78 +2.39 14th +14
    Party of the Greens (SZ) 159.025 3.19 +0.75 - -
    Czech Pirate Party (ČPS) 132,417 2.66 +1.86 - -
    Free Citizens Party (Svobodní) 122 564 2.46 +1.42 - -
    Civil Rights Party - Zeman's People (SPOZ) 75.113 1.51 −2.82 - -
    Workers' Party of Social Justice (DSSS) 42,906 0.86 −0.28 - -
    Political Movement for Change (Změna) 28,592 0.57 New - New
    Election block " Cheer up! "(HV) 21,241 0.42 New - New
    Sovereignty - Party of Reason (Suverenita) 13,538 0.27 −3.40 - -
    Landowners' Party (SsČR) 13,041 0.26 New - New
    Czech crown ("KČ") 8,932 0.17 +0.10 - -
    People's Socialists - Left of the 21st Century (LEV 21-NS) 3,843 0.07 New - New
    Active independent citizen (ANO) 1,237 0.02 New - New
    Volte Pravý Blok www.cibulka.net 1,225 0.02 New - New
    Roma Democratic Party 609 0.01 New - New
    Citizen 2011 455 0.00 New - New
    Club of the committed non-party 293 0.00 New - New
    total 4,969,984 100.00 200
    Valid votes 4,969,984 99.26 −0.11
    Invalid votes 37,228 0.74 +0.11
    voter turnout 5,007,212 59.48 −3.12
    Non-voters 3,415,668 40.52 +3.12
    Eligible voters 8,422,880
    Source: Czech Statistical Office

    Government formation

    The unexpectedly poor performance of the Social Democrats (ČSSD) made the targeted change of government from center-right to center-left more difficult. The minority government of the ČSSD tolerated by the KSČM , which was partially considered before the elections, had not received the necessary majority in parliament. In the House of Representatives, due to the further fragmentation into seven parliamentary groups, only government constellations of at least three parties have a majority. However, after the elections, a possible government majority of social democrats emerged very quickly, the newly drafted ANO (action of dissatisfied citizens) of the agro-billionaire Andrej Babiš and the KDU-ČSL , which changed from 1992-1998 and 2002-2009 Constellations in the government was represented. Babiš had initially stated that he only wanted to tolerate a social-Christian-democratic government, but later it became apparent that the ANO would join a coalition in 2011.

    However, the start of talks on forming a government was delayed by severe internal turbulence in the ČSSD: Supported by President Miloš Zeman , Vice- Party Chairman Michal Hašek tried to overthrow party chairman and top candidate Bohuslav Sobotka immediately after the elections: the party executive asked Sobotka to resign immediately from the negotiating delegation for the formation of the government. However, Sobotka, who refused to resign, received unexpectedly high public support. In addition, both the ANO and the KDU-ČSL made it clear that for them only party chairman Sobotka was the legitimate interlocutor. In the end, Michal Hašek and other high-ranking officials from the Social Democrats' executive committee (including the second vice-chairman Zdeněk Škromach ) declared their resignation from their party positions after a few days, thus enabling the government talks to begin under the chairmanship of Sobotka.

    Therefore, on November 22nd, 2013, President Zeman officially commissioned Bohuslav Sobotka to start talks on forming a government with the proposed coalition partners. The talks resulted in a coalition between the parties ČSSD , ANO 2011 and KDU-ČSL . The Bohuslav Sobotka government was appointed by President Miloš Zeman on January 29, 2014.

    Web links

    • volby.cz - results of all elections from the Czech Statistical Office (Czech, English)

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ Official election results 2013 Czech Statistical Office (English)
    2. ↑ Klaus appoints Necas as the new Prime Minister . In: FAZ , June 28, 2010
    3. ^ No new elections: House of Representatives rejects self-dissolution Radio Prague, July 18, 2013
    4. ^ Radio Prague - Czech House of Representatives clears the way for new elections . radio.cz. August 20, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
    5. ↑ Stranické preference a volební model v říjnu 2013 ( Memento from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 304 kB) CVVM (Czech)
    6. ↑ Volební model říjen 2013 ( Czech ) stem.cz. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
    7. ↑ V ČR sílí podpora mimoparlamentních stran a ppm factum (Czech)
    8. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (červenec-srpen 2013) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    9. ↑ Sociální democé u voličů stále vedou, ODS se propadá k hranici vstupu do Sněmovny, nové a malé strany nabírají na síle ( Czech , PDF) parlamentnilisty.cz. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
    10. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (červen-červenec 2013) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    11. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (květen-červen 2013) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    12. ↑ Podpora ODS na historickém minimu ppm factum (Czech)
    13. ↑ Bude jediným řešením "Duhová Koalice"? ppm factum (Czech)
    14. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (duben-květen 2013) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    15. ↑ Levý střed posiluje ppm factum (Czech)
    16. ↑ ČSSD by si mohla vybírat ppm factum (Czech)
    17. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (únor-březen 2013) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    18. ↑ ODS už ztratila třetinu své někdejší podpory ppm factum (Czech)
    19. ↑ TOP 09 téměř dotáhla ODS ppm factum (Czech)
    20. ↑ Komunisté na začátku ledna ztrácel ppm factum (Czech)
    21. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (listopad-prosinec 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    22. ↑ Krajské koalice nezměnily celostátní preference ppm factum (Czech)
    23. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (říjen-listopad 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    24. ↑ ODS i po kongresu oslabuje ppm factum (Czech)
    25. ↑ Sněmovní volební model MEDIAN (září-říjen 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    26. ↑ Před volbami klid ppm factum (Czech)
    27. ↑ Volební model MEDIAN (srpen-září 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    28. ↑ Komunisté se dotahují na ODS ppm factum (Czech)
    29. ↑ Zemanovci nabírají tempo ppm factum (Czech)
    30. ↑ Sociálním Demokratieům by nestačila podpora ppm factum (Czech)
    31. ↑ Strana Miloše Zemana by překročila pětiprocentní ppm factum (Czech)
    32. ↑ Volební model MEDIAN (květen-červen 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    33. ↑ Kauza Rath poškodila ČSSD jen mírně ppm factum (Czech)
    34. ↑ Volební model MEDIAN (duben-květen 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    35. ↑ Levicové strany dál posilují ppm factum (Czech)
    36. ↑ Volební model MEDIAN (březen - duben 2012) (PDF) Median (Czech)
    37. ↑ KDU-ČSL vážným kandidátem do sněmovny ppm factum (Czech)
    38. ↑ Půjdeme slovenskou cestou? ppm factum (Czech)
    39. ↑ V poslanecké sněmovně by zasedly jen 4 strany ppm factum (Czech)
    40. ↑ TOP 09 opět posiluje, Zelení nemají nic jisté ppm factum (Czech)
    41. ^ Election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic held on 25 - 26 October 2013 . volby.cz. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
    42. ↑ Social Democrats tear themselves apart . In: Wiener Zeitung , October 29, 2013
    43. ^ Head of Social Democrats Sobotka tasked with forming a government, Radio Prague, November 22, 2013
    44. ↑ radio.cz
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