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Proportionality of the electoral system for the Chamber of Deputies
Kohlová, Barbora ; Antoš, Marek (advisor) ; Horák, Filip (referee)
Proportionality of the electoral system for the Chamber of Deputies Abstract Proportional system allocates to a party a percentage of seats equal to the percentage of the votes received in the election. Because of the indivisibility of seats and in the interest of the functionality of the elected body, full proportionality can never be achieved. However, its level can be significantly influenced by manipulating the variables of the electoral system. Because of the contradiction with the principles of proportional representation and the principle of equality required by the Constitution the Constitutional Court in its decision Pl. ÚS 44/2017 just eight months before the elections, it repealed important provisions of the Act on Elections to the Parliament of the Czech Republic, in particular the electoral formula and the additive closing clause for coalitions. Due to the upcoming elections to the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament was forced to quickly adopt a compromising amendment. The main goal of this thesis is to determine whether this amendment, adopted as Act No. 189/2021 Coll., which replaced the existing D'Hondt method with a non-traditional Imperiali quota and introduced a second, nationwide, scrutiny to redistribute the remaining votes, fulfilled the requirements of the Constitutional Court and...
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