Czech legislative election, 2006
- KSČM: 26
- CSSD: 74
- SZ: 6
- KDU: 13
- ODS: 81
The parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2006 was held on 2 and 3 June 2006. In selecting the members of the House of Representatives were re-determined.
Electoral system
The House of Representatives was elected by proportional representation method. There was a minimum threshold of 5 %. The legislature was 4 years.
Participating parties
To select occurred in a total of 26 different parties.
Surveys
Election result
- Civic Democratic Party
- Czech Social Democratic Party
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS ) was the clear winner of the election. She received with 35.38 % of the votes cast, the most seats in the House of Representatives and at the same time recorded the largest increase in votes of 10.91 %. A slight increase in votes received by the Czech Social Democratic Party ( CSSD ), but it was still only the second-strongest. Significant loss of votes recorded by the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( KSČM ). The Christian Democratic People's Party ( KDU- CSL ) while also suffered losses at the polls, as she was in 2002 but started an alliance and a joint electoral list with the Freedom Union, these losses were not as too much counted: While the KDU- CSL only slightly behind their results remained that it had traditionally been run before 2002 as a single party, does this choice the virtual disappearance of the former ruling party, the Freedom Union of the political scene. On they accounted for only 0.3 % of the vote. For the Green Party managed (SZ ) with 6.29% for the first time jump over the 5 % threshold and thus moved in parliament.
Government formation
After the elections, the Czech Republic was paralyzed by difficult majorities, because both the "bourgeois " camp out ODS, KDU- CSL and SZ as well as on the "left" camp consisting of CSSD and KSČM were 100 of 200 seats are assigned. Both incumbent Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek and ODS chairman Mirek Topolánek laid claim to the Office of the Prime Minister. There was then a constitutional crisis because the newly elected parliament is not konstituiere over several weeks. Because the majority situation was not a candidate for the office of President of the Chamber of Deputies the required majority. The proposed from the bourgeois camp candidates Miroslava Nemcova and all posted replacement candidates failed due to the unity of the left bearing. As part of a compromise between the two camps first Social Democrat Miloslav Vlcek was " provisionally " elected President of the Parliament, to allow at least the constitution of Parliament. Vlcek then remained, however, until shortly before the next parliamentary elections in 2010 in office.
Also the formation of a government was difficult. The after the constitution of the parliament only provisionally Acting Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek speculated on a continuation of its existing government with the KDU- CSL as a minority government with the tacit connivance of the KSČM. However, this was rejected by the Christian Democrats. President Václav Klaus therefore commissioned in September 2006, the ODS chairman Mirek Topolánek to form a government, which had also been working for lack of civil majority to a minority government, hoping for support from the Social Democrats by an opposition agreement. Its formed from ODS representatives and non-party government was not confirmed by Parliament because of the opposition of the Social Democrats. It was not until the beginning of 2007, Topolánek still form a majority government capable composed of ODS, KDU- CSL and SZ, as two deputies had left the CSSD Group and the Government tacitly condoned. Thus a parliamentary government were carried a total of 230 days have passed between elections and education.
This government was overthrown, however, in spring 2009 by a destructive confidence vote again. It came because of the difficult political majorities to form a non-party caretaker government under Jan Fischer, which should lead the country to early elections in October 2009, which should be enabled by self- dissolution of the Chamber. These elections, however, were stopped in early September by the Constitutional Court, as the Czech Constitution had provided for the beginning of the legislature no self-dissolution law of the Chamber of Deputies and therefore enjoyed grandfathering the elected parliament. Especially since the Constitutional Court in 1998 allows a parliamentary dissolution as " exceptional case " and had asked the constitutional legislator for the future, a self-dissolution law explicitly enshrine in the Constitution, if it were desired. However, this was not done. Therefore, the legislature took up to the regular elections in May 2010 and the fisherman government remained in office.