Politics / Elections
This section includes reports, analysis and opinion about elections, public participation and political parties.
Show subcategories ▾
Spotlight issue
C.Gershman/National Endowment for Democracy: Reagan’s Westminster Address and Democracy 35 Years Later
At the end of May a group of democratic intellectuals and activists from more than two dozen countries gathered in Prague under the auspices of Forum 2000, an organization founded by Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who turned president in Czechoslovakia, to consider how to reverse the alarming decline of liberal democracy in the world today.
View more
Twitter
Linkedin
Facebook
Google+
M.Ehl/tol.org: "Beyond power games, the current political crisis centers on checks and balances underlying liberal democracies in the region."
It is important to watch the developments in the Czech Republic, and to see how the political crisis will unfold and how far different actors will be able and willing to go. Although foreigners will have quite a tough time understanding the who’s who of Czech political disharmony, the approach to the constitution will show who is serious about liberal democracy and who is not. That is the most timely Czech European question, Martin Ehl writes for www.tol.org portal.
View more
Czech Government resigns: Grayling's guide to the new political situation
Yesterday, the prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Czech Social Democracy) announced that his coalition government will resign after a dispute with the finance minister Andrej Babiš, who leads the second largest coalition party ANO. While the latest development comes as a real surprise, the finance minister’s position has already been on shaky ground several times in the past.
View more
