Prague to be sanctioned as single voting district for local elections

Czechs MPs supported a motion on Friday to legally sanction the Czech capital of Prague as a single voting district in local elections. The bill will now go to parliamentary committees for further debate. If approved by the lower house of Parliament, the new law would thwart plans by the right-of-centre Civic Democrats who want to divide the capital into several voting districts to eliminate smaller political groups. During the last local elections in 2006, Prague was a single voting district while in the previous elections four years earlier, the capital was divided into five constituencies.

Author: Jan Richter