Stalemate in Central Europe
The 2006 Czech Parlimentary Election
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The parliamentary election in the Czech Republic in early June 2006 led to stalemate. The former centre-left coalition has fallen apart and is no longer capable of governing. A coalition of communists and social democrats lacks a majority. And even the centre-right alliance of liberals, conservatives, Christian socialists and Greens that sought to build a coalition after the election has been unable to reach an agreement on sharing power. Czech politics is still blocked two months after the election.
(Osteuropa 7/2006, pp. 95–110)