Czech voters brusquely rejected the last government—a coalition of the Social Democrats (CSSD), Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the right-wing Liberal Union. The strongest party following the election was the ODS, under party chief Mirek Topolanek. With 35.4 percent of the vote, it enjoys a 3 percent lead over the CSSD of outgoing Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek. Its former coalition partners, the Liberal Union, received only 0.3 percent and face political oblivion.
The Stalinist Communist Party (KSCM), with 12.8 percent, and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), with 7.2 percent, have also won seats in the new parliament. Election turnout, at approximately 64 percent, was very low by European standards, but was higher than in the preceding elections.
The new parliament faces a political stalemate. The Social Democrats and Stalinists, on the one hand, and the Citizens Party, Christian Democrats and the Greens, on the other, each control about 100 of the 200 seats. This unstable situation makes new elections a possibility, according to many commentators.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/czec-j19.shtml
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Green Party Enters Right-Wing Government
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As a green, I believe in radically altering our economy though a series of many incremental changes (I call it evolutionary revolution). This is a viewpoint pushed by many including Jim Harris. We need to evolve our consumption to a point where we live off of our ecological interest, not our ecological capital.
I find that many observers get confused about greens as our policies come from all over the political spectrum.
At my ridings Green Party AGM just last week, I joked that I get called everything from 'loony left' to 'radical right'.
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{The Sudden Sage says: The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.}
Where did you get that from BC Mary, or is this more of your anti-Green rhetoric?
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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.
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— The Divine Symphony, by Inayat Khan<br />
I'm still waiting for BC Mary to explain how she came up with her screed to introduce the article...
Maybe someone should remind BC Mary that the NDP has propped up the Conservatives here at home on more than one occasion. Yet that doesn't make them some entity to watch with scornful displeasure. It's politics Mary!
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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.
country to a general statement about the political program of different
national Green Party's everywhere. The German Greens did not join in an
alliance with the Conservatives - does this balance out the decision in the
Czech Republic? Of course not - each situation has to be looked at in terms
of the specific circumstances of each country.
As for Canada, there is both tax increases and tax cuts for individuals and
corporations dependent on the changes make to production and
consumption. The current arrangement (without the Green Party in office)
has just continued steady corporate tax cuts in a race to the international
bottom without any benefits to the environment. A pollution tax is a smarter
corporate tax than current corporate taxation which can simply be passed
onto the consumer.