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Current AffairsCivic 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% in the 2002 elections, as a victory. More
Current AffairsPolitical 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 Saturday, political analyst Jiri Pehe came to
Radio Prague's studio to comment on the outcome of the elections:
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Current AffairsPresident 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 and his wife, Livia, voted together at an
elementary school in Prague 8.
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Current AffairsCzechs 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 entitled to elect deputies to the lower
house of the Czech parliament. It was not always the case. Czechs living
abroad had their first chance to vote in the previous election four years
ago after a law had been passed to that effect. But fewer than 4,000 of
them turned up to cast their ballots at the Czech Republic's embassies and
consulates around the world. Expectations are similar this time around.
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Current AffairsCommunists 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. Even so, they are still likely to come out
of this year's elections as the country's third strongest party.
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Current AffairsA look back at the pre-election campaigns
Many pundits in the Czech Republic agree that this year's pre-election
campaigns were - at least as far as the country's two largest parties were
concerned - among the most aggressive in recent memory, the ruling Social
Democrats and their opposition rivals the Civic Democrats vying for Czech
votes. It is widely expected that one of these parties will form the
country's next government. The campaign season was of course not just
about those two - or their leaders Jiri Paroubek and Mirek Topolanek. But,
in a way it might as well have been. More
SpecialFirst time voters discuss Czech politics ahead of this weekend's elections
Tens of thousands of Czechs will be voting for the first time in this
weekend's general elections. To get a flavour of how some new voters see
the elections - and Czech politics in general - I visited a secondary
school in Vysocany in Prague 9 to meet four 18-year-old students,
Veronika, Ilja, Tereza and Kristina.
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