Czech legislative election, 2010
- KSČM: 26
- CSSD: 56
- VV: 24
- TOP 09: 41
- ODS: 53
The parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2010 was held on 28 and 29 May 2010. In selecting the members of the House of Representatives were re-determined.
Initial situation
The government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS ) was overthrown on 24 March 2009 by a vote of no confidence. It was replaced on 8 May 2009 of a transitional government led by Jan Fischer ( non-partisan civil servants). The Fischer- government forms from high officials, of which half of the CSSD and the other half by the last government (ODS, KDU- CSL and Green ) had been determined. First early elections for the 9 and 10 October 2009, set. On 10 September 2009 the Constitutional Court rejected the Constitutional Act on the implementation of early elections to the House of Representatives as unconstitutional. The already being prepared election on October 9 and 10 was stopped with it. As a new date of 28 and 29 May 2010 were set, which was the last possible date of the regular election period.
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 and estimates
The social democratic CSSD was considered a favorite. At the last regional elections in the fall of 2008 to gain the upper hand in 13 of the 14 regions of the Social Democrats. Surveys from January to April 2010 saw the CSSD around 30 % ( bearish ), the bourgeois democratic ODS 20 to 25 % ( bearish ), the Communist KSČM and the conservative TOP 09 respectively between 10 and 15% and on direct democracy aligned Centre Party veci veřejné increasingly strong since January, in May 2010, most recently by 10%. To the five percent hurdle or just lay under the Christian Democratic People's Party, KDU- CSL, the green SZ ( both members of the Topolánek government ) and the newly formed left - centrist small party SPOZ to the former Prime Minister Miloš Zeman.
The Chairman of the CSSD Jiri Paroubek had announced in advance to favor a minority government. At the last election in 2006, a project of a minority government had failed with the connivance of the communist KSČM.
Surveys
Election result
- CSSD ( Social Democrats )
- ODS ( Liberal Conservative )
- TOP 09 ( Conservative )
Although the winner of the election was the social democratic CSSD, however, as predicted with significantly fewer votes than expectations. The Civil ODS and the Communist KSČM reached their expectations about. In addition, the newly founded TOP ( an alliance among others, with a Starostové nezávislí received ) attracted 09 and VV in parliament. The last represented in an elected government KDU- CSL and SZ missed the five percent hurdle as well as the newly established SPOZ. Due to the poor performance of the CSSD, KDU- CSL of, the SZ and the SPOZ resigned the respective party leaders of the four parties.
Instead of the expected left government began shortly after the election talks to form a center-right government. After the formation of a stable coalition of the ODS, TOP 09 and VV had signed, appointed President Václav Klaus on June 28, 2010, Chairman of the ODS, Petr Necas, the new prime minister and asked him to form a government. The government formed Petr Necas did not survive despite an initially very large majority the legislature. The VV occurred in April 2012 out of the government, the elimination LIDEM - liberální demokraté initially secured her the majority. However, after Prime Minister Petr Necas resigned in June 2013 and it became associated with the formation of the successor government Jiří Rusnok that there was after various fraction withdrawals and exclusions no stable majority more for a coalition in parliament, the Chamber of Deputies dissolved with 140 votes to 7 (of 200 members ) on August 20, 2013 at himself and cleared the way for early elections.