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The Czech Republic (Czechia)
Population
The total population of the Czech Republic is 10,578,820 by 1st January 2017. 4.40% of the total are foreigners (Eurostat).
The median age is 40.07 which is close to the European average of 40.36 (UN Data).
Political Parties
The most recent parliamentary elections were held in October 2017. The prominent parties, vote shares in these elections and their orientations are as follows (Parlgov):
|
Party Name |
Vote Share |
Ideological Orientation |
|
Action of Dissatisfied Citizens |
29.64 |
Liberal |
|
Civic Democratic Party |
11.32 |
Conservative |
|
Czech Pirate Party |
10.79 |
Special issue |
|
Freedom and Direct Democracy Tomio Okamura |
10.64 |
Right-wing |
|
Czech Social Democratic Party |
7.27 |
Social democracy |
|
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia |
7.76 |
Communist/Socialist |
|
Christian Democratic Union -- People's Party |
5.8 |
Christian democracy |
|
Tradition Responsibility Prosperity 09 |
5.31 |
Conservative |
|
Mayors and Independents |
5.18 |
Special issue |
|
Green Party |
1.46 |
Green/Ecologist |
|
Party of Free Citizens |
1.56 |
Conservative |
Electoral System
The system used in the Czech Republic is List PR. They use open list: D’Hondt method (wiki). Voter turnout in 2017 was 60.84 % (idea.int).
Quality of Democracy
The Czech Republic is parliamentary democracy score by Freedom House is 1 out of 7 where 1 is most free and 7 is least free. According to Transparency International , The Czech Republic is ranked 42nd least corrupted among 180 countries with a score of 57 out of 100.
Gender Equality
Currently, 22% of the people in the parliament are women. There is no legislated quota for women candidates (idea.int).