2017 President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic election

2017 President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
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Candidate Radek Vondráček
Party ANO
Popular vote 135
Percentage 68.5%
President before election

Jan Hamáček
ČSSD

Elected President

Radek Vondráček
ANO

On 20 November 2017, the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic held an election for its president following that year's parliamentary election. Radek Vondráček of ANO 2011 won the election with the support of 135 deputies.

Background

The Czech Republic held its parliamentary election on 20 and 21 October 2017, which resulted in the defeat of the ruling. Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)

ANO 2011, under the leadership of Andrej Babiš, won a plurality of 78 seats. The conservative Civic Democratic Party emerged as the second-largest party in the chamber, taking 25 seats.[2] Prior to the election, Jan Hamáček of the ČSSD served as President of the Chamber.

Election

Candidates

Won election

Withdrew before election

  • Petr Fiala, leader of the Civic Democratic Party[4] (withdrew)[5]

Developments and vote

Following the election, ANO 2011 announced it would nominate Radek Vondráček to serve as President of the Chamber.[6] On 23 October 2017, Freedom and Direct Democracy agreed to support Vondráček. Combined, the parties controlled 100 seats out of 200.[7] The Czech Pirate Party announced it would support his candidacy on 29 October 2017.[8]

On 24 October 2017, the Civic Democratic Party announced it would nominate Petr Fiala as its candidate.[9] Jan Zahradil stated that Fiala's candidacy is to show him as the leader of right-wing opposition.[10] TOP 09 announced it wouldn't support Vondráček.[11] On 31 October 2017, Miroslav Kalousek the leader of TOP 09 called parties to vote for neither of 2 candidates and to jam up the Chamber. This would prevent Andrej Babiš from becoming prime minister.[12]

Fiala withdrawn from the election on 15 November 2017 because Vondráček had support of Pirates and SPD.[5] On 22 November 2017, Vondráček was elected the President of the Chamber of Deputies. He received 135 votes. 14 votes were against and 46 blank.[13]

References

  1. ^ "První hádka poslanců. O členy výboru, který bude řešit vydání Babiše". iDNES.cz. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Je sečteno. ANO jednoznačně vyhrálo volby. Babiš nabídl jednání všem stranám". ČT24 (in Czech). 21 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  3. ^ "ANO chce Vondráčka za předsedu Sněmovny". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Chceme předsedu Sněmovny, oznámila ODS". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Lidovci, ODS, STAN a TOP 09 jdou do ustavení sněmovny v jednom bloku. Do jejího čela nebudou volit Vondráčka, Fiala kandidovat nebude". Hospodářské noviny (in Czech). 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Babiš zahájil povolební vyjednávání, Zeman by uvítal vládu s ČSSD". ceskenoviny.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Okamura jednal s ANO. Shodli se na předsedovi sněmovny Vondráčkovi". Deník.cz (in Czech). 23 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Piráti podpoří na místo předsedy Sněmovny Vondráčka z ANO". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  9. ^ "ODS bude chtít post předsedy Sněmovny pro svého lídra Fialu". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  10. ^ "Vyjednávání s ANO: Z ODS unikla překvapivá informace, kterou Petr Fiala nezmínil". Parlamentní Listy (in Czech). Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Babiš si "odškrtl" ODS, nevidí důvod nechat vedení Sněmovny Fialovi". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 24 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Zastavme Zemana s Babišem blokováním Sněmovny, vyzval Kalousek". Novinky.cz (in Czech). 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  13. ^ "ON-LINE: Předsedou Sněmovny byl zvolen Vondráček z ANO". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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