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The Czech general elections
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Ecrit par Vaclav Mls
CV : My name is Václav Mls and I am the assistant of Libor Roucek (Member of the European Parliament). Together with my collegue Kateřina Bocianová, I will report during the next days from the Czech election campaign. The elections will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of June.
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The results - 14-06-2006 10:27:49 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
Results of our Parliament Elections (Chamber of Deputies):
The results in percentage:
35,4 % ODS
32,3 % ČSSD
12,8 % communists
7,2 % CDU
6,3 % greens
The results in number of the chairs in the Chamber of Deputies:
81 ODS
74 ČSSD
26 communists
13 CDU
6 greens
Number and percentage of women:
28 pcs, i.e. 14 % (in this period there were 34 women, i.e. 17 %) -
A nightmare for our democratic political culture - 08-06-2006 11:46:41 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
The Czech elections are over and we already know the results - but we have results that do not solve the political situation. ODS is the winner (35,4%) and ČSSD is the second (32,3% of votes). There won’t be a government without coalitions partners. The compositions that had been announced before elections are as following: ODS with KDU-ČSL (Christian Democrats) and the Greens on one side, ČSSD and the Communist Party on the other. But the result is 100 seats in the House of Deputies for both sides: These are quite complicated elections results.
The president has nominated Mirek Topolánek, the leader of ODS, to create the new government. The ČSSD will have a "zero tolerance" strategy facing them and consequently we can guess that a new ODS-government will have difficulties to govern with a no-seat-majority.
Some politicians are proposing a big coalition. In the Czech Republic we already had an experience with a similar kind of model (not a big coalition but a tolerated minority government): From 1998 to 2002 the ČSSD with its minority government was tolerated by the opposition ODS. But now a cooperation between ODS and ČSSD seems rather unlikely. Nevertheless politics is politics and tomorrow everything can change.
There are three other possibilities - 1/ government consisted of “apolitical” persons (proposal of ČSSD), 2/ early elections or 3/ "buying" deputies from the other side to obtain a majority. The first possibility is being refused by ODS. Early elections would be "interesting" - new campaigns after having wasted all resources for the recent contest. Furthermore the public opinion is against repeating elections. The third possibility is a nightmare for our democratic political culture.
Before I was feeling bad and now I feel sad. Because the ODS has been so aggressive and disrespecting to democratic rules and usage, but also because Jiří Paroubek (the top-candidate of the ČSSD) refused to accept the results of the election. Considering the unfair and slanderous attacks of ODS, his reaction is personally comprehensive but it adds fuel to the flames where we should try to find a new political equilibrium for our country.
Now, we must wait and see how the story develops. I hope that somehow there will be an effective working Czech government with strong social aspects. I wish economic growth and prosperity in the next years. And I still hope for a bright future of the Czech Republic. -
I am shocked - 02-06-2006 14:04:13 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
The general elections in the Czech Republic are taking place today and tomorrow and I feel bad. During the campaign we have seen a lot of different things, sometimes it was funny, sometimes it was boring and sometimes it was also a little bit embarrassing.
But at the moment I am shocked. The two main parties on the Czech political scenes - ČSSD and opposite ODS - have decided to fight by all possible means.
ODS has always been very offensive but if somebody accuses our Prime Minister of sexual abuse of children, of having contacts with mafia, of being involved into corruption scandals etc., he crosses the line.
In addition, during the campaigns we could see a lot of violence against our side- the slap of Miroslav Macek, physical attacks on two deputies (one from the ČSSD, the other from the Communist Party), broken windows and rows between candidates. Our political culture has obtained a deadly blow.
I feel bad. The Czech Republic is a democratic country, we are proud of our democracy but for some people on the right spectrum power seems to be more important. Ideas and idelas are not important for them. Accusations have become a normal strategy in campaigns and the ODS has served us a lot of examples.
The only thing I can do now is to vote and wait. To wait for the results of the elections. And we should remember that hope never dies. So I hope that the voters will decide in the name of the democratic political culture. -
The Czech Green Party - 02-06-2006 08:52:21 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
On the Czech political scene there has appeared a party: the Green Party. It did not appeared suddenly "from day to day". It existed already quite a long time but thanks to some frustration of the voters it has obtained more and more support.
Now, even Václav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, has expressed his recognition of this party: In his opinion it could play the role of an alternative choice.
But the Green Party in Czech Republic is not a choice as good as it might seem. First of all, the leader of the party, Martin Bursík, is not able (or doesn't want) to say with whom he would go to the coalition. That ´s why some people say: If you vote for the Greens, you will vote for ODS, the opposite right-wing party. Others say: If you vote for the Greens, you will vote for ČSSD. Well, that’s quite a confusion.
Moreover the Green Party has just created a left platform. But when its leader met prime minister Jiří Paroubek 2 days ago, Martin Bursík was so angry that he even decided to withdraw the platform's leader from the voting list.
The message for the voter should therefore be clear. The Green Party calculates. Generally one or two weeks before the elections a political party should poses a clear programme and present its attitudes. Only then we could really talk about a real alternative… -
Good bye Lenin (24.05.2006) - 24-05-2006 14:00:23 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
Is it correct to use films to prejudice the voters during an election campaign? In ODS´s opinion yes. The opposition party abuses the film "Good bye Lenin" to pretend that socialism equals communism and is therefore a threat to everyone. "What a pitty" that they face now a problem. The director, Wolfgang Becker, reacted and proclaimed that the ODS did not understand the message of his film.
In general political parties try to involve emotions in their campaigns. Some believe in the power of fear. They choose a topic and then they make a threat out of it. The ODS tried to frighten the voters during the election campaign in 2002 stating that the European Union represented a great threat. In the meantime everyone could see that this is very simply not true. Therefore it was necessary to create another fear - the danger of “communism's revival”.
The most important thing about these whole incriminating-games is that voters don’t become tired by the behaviour of democratic parties. The slander, the creating of fears and the negative style of campaigning could discourage voters. I believe that campaigns should rather highlight positive aspects. They should emphasize on successes and good ideas, to explain the programmes rationally etc.
Our opponents the ODS are however doing everything to frustrate the voters. -
Fisticuffs (23.05.06) - 24-05-2006 13:46:28 - Il faut être connecté pour poster un commentaire. Veuillez vous identifier ou vous enregistrer ici
I suppose that everybody who is interested in the political situation in the European countries has heard of the attack on Health Minister David Rath. He has been slaped by Miroslav Macek, member of the opposition party ODS.
It is a shame for the Czech Republic that a political adviser of our President and honorary chairman of ODS uses force to solve a dispute. Miroslav Macek explains that he had personal reasons but he must have known that he would be drawn into a political game.
Macek, with his political activity during the 90´s, is not naive and inexperienced. ODS officially disavow from the punch-up but it said that it was reaction to the offensive statements of Minister Rath.
One thing should be clear. If anybody wants to use violence in an election campaign, he mustn't be an active person in public life. Today it is only one slap and tomorrow it could be something worse. I hope that remains only a pessimistic scenario but the voters should see our politicians with attentive eyes.
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