Control of politicians
— #34 Abolishing of the five percent limit constraining moving up on the candidate list to a place ensuring election
The 5% limiting threshold which the candidates have to overcome to move up on the candidate list of a political party to a place which would ensure him election to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower Chamber of the Czech Parliament). This artificial threshold causes that up to three quarters of preferential votes are forfeited
If the artificial five percent limit which the candidates have to overcome to move higher up on the candidate list to get elected, most of the preferential votes would not be lost and concrete candidates selected by voters would get to the Chamber of Deputies instead of candidates determined by the political party.
Sources:
- Council of Europe Recommendation Rec (2007) 15 on measures concerning media coverage of election campaigns, 2007
- Kudrna, J., Preferential Voting in the Election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, Scientific project, MSM 0021620804, 2010
- Lebeda, T., Municipal elections mislead. Short essay on problematic aspecs of the electoral system for municipal councils, Acta Politologica, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2009, p. 332-343.
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 5: Change of the electoral system leading to the corruption reduction, December 2013
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