Twenty years is an eternity in politics, but for much of the two decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) has discovered that voters have long memories.

A Prague Municipal Court has upheld the Oct. 15-16 local election results in the face of a judicial challenge, paving the way for a likely grand coalition in City Hall between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (ČSSD). The judgment was released shortly after 1:30 p.m. today. “The Municipal Court concluded that during [...]

Check out analysis of the behind the scenes maneuverings to gain control of Prague City Hall including comments from political analysts Jiři Pehe and Bohumil Doležal in today’s print Prague Post, and a report on how the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (ČSSD) may look to form a “grand coalition” between themselves and bypass [...]

    The second round of Senate elections ended in triumph for the opposition Social Democrats (ČSSD). For full analysis on the implications of the victory on the governing coalition check out the Oct. 27 print edition of the Prague Post, but here is a summary of how things broke down… ČSSD won 12 of [...]

Taking your political party into opposition is a good thing for reorganizing and reconstituting yourself after  an election defeat. In the case of the Social Democrats (ČSSD), they actually entered opposition after winning an election (though they were unable to find potential coalition partners). ČSSD is still severely disorganized (they don’t even officially have a [...]

The Social Democrats (ČSSD) did actually win the May elections, but unable to find coalition partners were relegated to opposition. Political analyst Jiří Pehe, director of New York University in Prague, says the party has taken a series of missteps since the elections and have thus missed an opportunity to maintain their relevance on the [...]