Next Czech parliamentary election explained

Country:Czech Republic
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:yes
Previous Election:2021 Czech parliamentary election
Previous Year:2021
Outgoing Members:List of MPs elected in the 2021 Czech legislative election
Election Date:By October 2025
Seats For Election:All 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Majority Seats:101
Opinion Polls:Opinion polling for the Next Czech legislative election
Leader1:Andrej Babiš
Party1:ANO 2011
Alliance1:
Last Election1:27.1%, 72 seats
Leader2:Petr Fiala
Party2:Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)
Alliance2:SPOLU
Last Election2:27.8%, 71 seats
Alliance4:Pirates and Mayors
Leader4:Ivan Bartoš
Party4:Czech Pirate Party
Last Election4:15.6%, 37 seats
Leader5:Tomio Okamura
Party5:Freedom and Direct Democracy
Alliance5:
Last Election5:9.6%, 20 seats
Prime Minister
Posttitle:Prime Minister after election
Before Election:Petr Fiala
Before Party:Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)

The next Czech parliamentary election will be held in or before October 2025. All 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic will be elected and the leader of the resultant government will become the Prime Minister.

Background

The 2021 parliamentary elections saw the conservative alliance Spolu (consisting of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), KDU-ČSL and TOP 09) finish first with 27.8% of the vote. ANO 2011 finished second and liberal alliance Pirates and Mayors third. Freedom and Direct Democracy was the only other party to win seats. Spolu formed a government with Pirates and Mayors with ODS leader Petr Fiala as Prime Minister.

Soon after the 2021 elections, the leader of the Mayors and Independents, Vít Rakušan, said that his party would run in the next elections as a single party rather than continue their alliance with the Pirate Party. According to internal Pirate Party analysis, the Mayors violated their joint agreement by asking their voters to give their candidates preference votes on the joint list, which resulted in just four Pirate MPs being elected.[1]

On 8 February 2023, Babiš announced he would limit his role within ANO 2011. He would remain as an MP and the leader of the party, while Karel Havlíček and Alena Schillerová would become the primary faces of the party, with Havlíček becoming leader of the shadow cabinet.[2] [3] Babiš described Havlíček as a future prime minister of the Czech Republic.[4]

Pre-election composition

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PartySeats+/–
ANO 201171–7
Civic Democratic Party34+9
Mayors and Independents33+27
KDU-ČSL23+13
Freedom and Direct Democracy20–2
TOP 0914+7
Czech Pirate Party4–18
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Opinion polls

See main article: Opinion polling for the next Czech parliamentary election.

Coalition polling

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Czech government set to sign coalition deal. 7 November 2021.
  2. Web site: Šamanová . Dáša . Babiš se stahuje do pozadí, předsedou ANO a poslancem přitom zůstává . . 8 February 2023 . cs.
  3. Web site: Kopecký . Josef . Babiš povede ANO v pozadí, vidět budou Schillerová a šéf stínové vlády Havlíček . iDNES.cz . 8 February 2023 . cs . 8 February 2023.
  4. Web site: Leinert . Ondřej . Babiš: Moje poslední volby? Asi v roce 2025. Vláda ničí naši práci, Fiala to neřídí a Válek by se měl léčit . Hospodářské noviny (HN.cz) . 9 June 2023 . cs . 9 June 2023.