The CSSD Social Democratic Party has won the legislative elections held in the Czech Republic with 20.5% of the vote, the office of statistics in Prague said Saturday.
Behind the CSSD, which dropped 1.6% compared with the 2010 elections, came a surprise challenge from the new populist ANO party, once the ballots were counted from 99.3% of the polling stations. Coming in third was the KSCM Communist Party, with 15%, while the the party that was in power until recently, the liberal Top 09, was left with 11.9%. Also finding a place in the 200-seat parliament was the liberal ODS party, which crashed from 20% in 2010 to 7.7% this time out.
Also rising above the required minimum of 5% of the vote were two other parties that have been on the outside until now - the conservative Christian Democrat KDU-SCL with 6.8%, and the new Dawn of Direct Democracy party of the senator and businessman of Japanese origin, Tomio Okamura, with 6.9%.
Participation in these elections, which began Friday and ended Saturday at 2 p.m., reached 59%, three% less than in 2010.
The fragmented result points to considerable complications in forming a government, since the left does not have a majority of seats in parliament.
Behind the CSSD, which dropped 1.6% compared with the 2010 elections, came a surprise challenge from the new populist ANO party, once the ballots were counted from 99.3% of the polling stations. Coming in third was the KSCM Communist Party, with 15%, while the the party that was in power until recently, the liberal Top 09, was left with 11.9%. Also finding a place in the 200-seat parliament was the liberal ODS party, which crashed from 20% in 2010 to 7.7% this time out.
Also rising above the required minimum of 5% of the vote were two other parties that have been on the outside until now - the conservative Christian Democrat KDU-SCL with 6.8%, and the new Dawn of Direct Democracy party of the senator and businessman of Japanese origin, Tomio Okamura, with 6.9%.
Participation in these elections, which began Friday and ended Saturday at 2 p.m., reached 59%, three% less than in 2010.
The fragmented result points to considerable complications in forming a government, since the left does not have a majority of seats in parliament.
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