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Parliamentary Elections in Latvia 2018
Hvězda, Jan ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This bachelor thesis is a case study of the thirteenth parliamentary election in Latvia that took place on October 6, 2018. The first chapter introduces political and party system of Latvia and its development after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. At the same time, it observes the election results since 1993 until 2014. The following chapter introduces all sixteen political parties that took part in 2018 parliamentary election. The text is concerned with their election promises, preferences and important candidates. The next part describes the election process or, more specifically, rules of candidacy, voting rights, electoral districts, campaign rules, possibility of voting abroad and vote counting. The following chapter shows results of the election itself and confronts them with the previous election results. The thesis includes reactions of several foreign media that worried about high number of votes for a pro-Russian party Harmony. Next chapter follows negotiations about the shape of new government that now consists of five parties. In the end, the study solves the problem of minority politics and, particularly, Russian propaganda in Latvia. It offers a list of pro-Kremlin disinformational websites, suggests ways how to counter fake news and analyzes whether Latvian election was affected...
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