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The Civic Democratic Party (Czech: Občanská demokratická strana, ODS) is a conservative and economically liberal political party in the Czech Republic.The party sits between centre-right and right-wing on the political spectrum, and holds 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and is the second strongest party by number of seats following the 2021 election.
In October 2016, voters elected 675 members of regional assemblies in 13 regions of the nation (except Prague) which then elected their regional leadership. ANO won the election with 21.05%, while the Social Democrats came first in only two regions – South Bohemia and Vysočina – with 15.25% nationwide.
According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, an election to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, must be held every four years.The government is answerable to the Chamber of Deputies and remains in power only with the confidence of the majority of members of parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic on 28–29 May 2010 to elect the 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies. [1] The elections had been expected to take place sometime before the end of 2009, but was postponed due to legal challenges. [2]
ANO [a] (lit. ' Yes '), officially called ANO 2011, [29] is a right-wing populist political party in the Czech Republic, led by businessman Andrej Babiš, who served as Prime Minister from 2017 to 2021.
The party was founded in May 2015 by Tomio Okamura and Radim Fiala when eight Members of Parliament split from the Dawn of Direct Democracy parliamentary group. As the party was newly-formed in that parliamentary term, these MPs sat as independents until the 2017 Czech legislative election.
Center for Economics and Politics (abbreviated CEP) is a think-tank based in the Czech Republic, founded by leader of Civic Democratic Party Václav Klaus in 1998. [1] Other people involved with CEP include Petr Mach and Jan Skopeček.
The voting took place at meetings of the party's local branches, with voting being deemed valid if the turnout was at least 25%. If the turnout was less than 25%, then the Central Executive Committee of ČSSD would decide whether the party joined the government.