European Parliament election, 2009 (Czech Republic)
The European elections in the Czech Republic in 2009 was held on June 5th and 6th, 2009. She was part of the 2009 European elections, with 22 of the 736 seats were awarded in the European Parliament in the Czech Republic.
Electoral system
The whole area of the Czech Republic shall be a constituency. The elections were held for two days - on Friday ( 14 to 22 clock ) and Saturday ( 8 to 14 clock ). The voices were translated according to the D' Hondt method in mandates. There is a minimum threshold of 5 %. The voter may grant two candidates a preferential vote. If a candidate receives preferential votes of at least 5 % of the valid votes cast for his party or election coalition, he gets the mandate. If more candidates receive at least 5% of preferential votes, the candidates are ranked in order of preference votes.
Active entitled to vote at any Czech citizen who has reached the age of 18 years later than the second election day, and every citizen of another Member State, who achieved the age of 18 years later than the second election day and is registered at least 45 days in the population register. Expats who wanted to participate in the Czech Republic in the European elections, could only personally select on Czech territory.
Passive right to vote at any Czech citizen, who achieved the age of 21 years later than the second election day, and every citizen of another Member State, who achieved the age of 21 years later than the second election day and is registered at least 45 days in the population register.
Compared to the previous legislature Czech Republic occupied with 22 seats, two seats less.
Political pre-election
In the elections to the House of Representatives in 2006, although Mirek Topolanek's conservative- won civil ODS, but could not form a majority. Both camps ( the social democratic CSSD with the communist KSČM on one side, and the ODS with the Christian Democratic KDU- CSL and the green SZ on the other side ) obtained exactly 100 of the 200 seats. By supporting the second deputy of the CSSD Topolánek finally received a vote of confidence from parliament. The election campaign has been criticized as one of the most aggressive and muddiest in the Czech Republic. In the elections to the regional assemblies in 2008, the CSSD won in all 13 regions. This deepened again the tense situation, because the CSSD then tried in the regions some campaign promises, but did not correspond to the powers of the regions to implement. The best known example is that the regions introduced by the Government in the context of healthcare reform consultation fee tried to repay the patient, after which the government sued them in court.
The conservative- bourgeois government of Mirek Topolánek decreed in the Czech Chamber of Deputies had no stable majority. Previously she had initiated several of the opposition Social Democratic CSSD -confidence votes barely survived and had to go to a further vote of confidence on 24 March 2009 - even during the Czech EU presidency - eventually resign. This led to a very tense situation between the two major political parties ODS and CSSD, which significantly influenced the initial positions of the election campaign.
Both major political parties ODS and CSSD led in the framework of the European elections aggressive election campaigns by often attacked each other and emphasized unfair practices of others or imputed (so-called negative campaigning ). In particular, the massive drop in popularity of the Social Democratic Party leader Jiří Paroubek among young people led to protests and riots in campaign events of the CSSD. Paroubek was first then pelted by young people at several campaign events with single and in Prague with several hundred eggs. As an organizing platform for the protests was mainly the social network Facebook.
Due to the situation pointed to the major parties had electoral campaigns of smaller parties rather toneless. Former President Václav Havel supported the green Strana zelených and criticized several times the bad level of the campaign.
Choice advertiser parties and leading candidates
The ODS occurred repeatedly with the top candidate and former MEP Jan Zahradil. The CSSD was led by Jiří Havel. Leader of KDU- CSL was Zuzana Roithová and the green Strana zelených was led by Dusík. Top candidate of the Communist KSČM was the former MEP Miloslav Ransdorf. On the campaign continued involved a large number of small parties. The previous successful MEP Jana Hybášková led as a top candidate to Evropská demokratická strana ( EDS). Among the Euro-skeptic parties included the Libertas.cz newly established, led by the ODS defector Vlastimil Tlusty and the MEPs and media entrepreneur Vladimir Zelezny, and the coalition Suverenita, led by MEP Jana Bobošíková. Overall, 33 subjects involved in the elections.
Result
Of 8,401,374 eligible voters chose 2,371,009, representing a turnout of 28.22 %. 99.57 % of the votes were valid.
The liberal SNK Evropští demokraté ( in 2004 with 3 seats represented ) and the Association of Independent NEZÁVISLÍ ( in 2004 represented with 2 seats ) resigned from the European Parliament from. The green Strana zelených reached only as represented in the House of Representatives party with 48 621 votes and 2.06 % is not the five-percent hurdle. Striking is the large number of dilapidated votes.