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Current AffairsNew lower house of Parliament holds first session
On Tuesday, 114 MPs in the 200 member lower house of Parliament will take
an oath of loyalty for the first time, as the Chamber meets in its first
session following last month’s elections. The new lower house will be far
different from that which preceded it: for one, more women MPs than ever
were elected and are also expected to hold key posts as lower house speaker
and deputy chairpersons. Secondly, the new lower house will be slimmed of
numerous committees as part of necessary cost-cutting measures, a move
decided on Monday by the three parties negotiating on the next government.
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Current AffairsCivic Democrats confirm Petr Nečas as leader and put allies into top party posts
The acting leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats and man tipped to be
the next prime minister, Petr Nečas, has been confirmed at the top of the
party. What is more, votes for the other top party posts confounded
expectations by delivering Mr. Nečas’ dream team.
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Current AffairsCivic Democrats get a makeover
The weekend conference of the Czech Republic’s largest centre-right
party, the Civic Democrats, brought plenty of new faces to the forefront.
Many in the press and the party itself refer to the changes as a
revolution, but will it help them regain their lost ground? What can we
expect from the “new” Civic Democratic Party? Radio Prague asked
political analyst Jiří Pehe.
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Current AffairsUpcoming Civic Democrat party congress might stall government negotiations
Three weeks after general elections, three centre-right parties are still
holding talks on forming a coalition government. On Friday, the leader of
the strongest party, the Civic Democrats, is set to inform President
Václav Klaus on the progress made so for, and might even leave those talks
as prime minister designate. But the Civic Democrats are holding a crucial
congress over the weekend that could change everything.
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Current AffairsCzech Christian Democrats at a crossroads
The recent Czech general elections saw voters swing away from the
established parties in favour of newcomers. One of the traditional parties
that got left out in the cold were the Christian Democrats, who received
just 4.4 percent of the vote, falling short of the 5 percent threshold
required for seats in Parliament. Radio Prague spoke to political analyst
Vít Hloušek from Brno’s Masaryk University, and asked him what led to
the party’s decline.
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