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Municipal elections were held in the Czech Republic on 10–11 October 2014. Approximately 62,300 local council seats were elected. [1] The date of the elections was announced by the President Miloš Zeman in June 2014. [2]
The Czech Republic elects a legislature at a national level. The Parliament has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies has 200 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation with a 5% election threshold for political parties. The Senate has 81 members in single-seat constituencies, elected by two-round runoff voting for a six-year term, with one third of seats contested every even year in the autumn. The President of the Czech Republic was indirectly elected for five-year terms until 2012; beginning with the 2013 election, the president is elected by direct two-round runoff voting.
The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
Miloš Zeman is a Czech politician serving as the third and current President of the Czech Republic since 8 March 2013. He previously served as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As Leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed his party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman was Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 until he became Prime Minister two years later in 1998.
Party | Seats |
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Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party | 3,792 |
Czech Social Democratic Party | 3,773 |
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia | 2,510 |
Civic Democratic Party | 2,214 |
Association STAN and Independent candidates | 1,749 |
ANO 2011 | 1,600 |
STAN | 1,324 |
TOP 09 | 726 |
Associations of Independent candidates/local associations | 30,030 |
Other parties and subjects (256) | 7,060 |
Independents | 6,333 |
Source: Novinky |
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