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Newly-elected MP says he was offered bribe - apparently to break parliamentary deadlock
Just days after the Czech election ended in stalemate, allegations of scandal have already surfaced: a claim that a bribe was secretly offered to break the parliamentary…
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Surprises of the June 2006 elections
This past weekend's elections in the Czech Republic confirmed some earlier predictions, such as the fact that the Greens would cross the 5% threshold and find themselves…
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With deadlock in lower house series of confidence votes possible
The leadership of the Civic Democrats, who came first in this past weekend's general elections, have launched official talks on forming a new coalition government. After…
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Economics, not regionalism, root of Czech voting divide
The weekend's elections have produced a perfect split in parliament. If you look at a map of the election results, it also shows an almost perfect split in the way Czechs…
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Czech Republic braces itself for weeks of political uncertainty
The Czechs have gone to the polls: after eight years in government, the Social Democrats are to make room for the opposition right-of-centre Civic Democrats, with their…
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Political analyst Jiri Pehe on election outcome
Who will rule the Czech Republic over the next four years? In recent days political analysts have been speculating on the pros and cons of various coalition scenarios. On…
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Czech Greens celebrate an election first
As pre-election polls predicted, the Czech Green Party looks to have safely crossed the five percent barrier and made it into parliament for the first time since its…
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Civic Democrats celebrate victory
Live music, food, champagne. The Civic Democrats are celebrating and they say their victory is clear. They also point to the high voter turnout at 65%, as opposed to 58…
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Thirty percent of vote always success for Social Democrats, says deputy PM
Though the governing Social Democratic Party do appear to have come off second best in this year's elections, the party did win a greater percentage of the votes than most…
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Communists snag smaller percentage than in 2002
The Czech Communist party so far appears to have received a smaller percentage of votes cast than they did in the 2002 election - when they won nearly a fifth of the vote…
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Czechs abroad call for introduction of postal vote; turnout expected low at embassies
According to estimates, some two million people of Czech extraction live outside the Czech Republic. Some 300,000 out of those have Czech citizenship and are therefore…
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President Vaclav Klaus votes
When polling stations in the Czech Republic opened on Friday, the country's leading political representatives did not wait long to cast their votes. President Vaclav Klaus…
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