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I:9626 | Bojicat ( 912.46 points) | October 19, 2017 11:00am |
ANO 2011 is set to clinch the dominant position this weekend. The question is, will it be a slight, max to 20 seat margin of victory vs its nearest rival, the CSSD, or a thumping? I predict that it'll be slight; primus inter pares, not hegemon.
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R:194 | Scott³ ( 8757.19 points) | October 21, 2017 02:53pm |
Another nation with the left and center-left collapsing.
If it wasn’t for New Zealand leftists making a deal with the one nationalist party, it would be losses everywhere.
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R:194 | Scott³ ( 8757.19 points) | October 21, 2017 03:15pm |
The worst showing for the center left Social Democrat Party in the nation’s history. Which followed Germany, Austria, France, etc, all seeing crippling losses for the primary center-left party.
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R:194 | Scott³ ( 8757.19 points) | October 22, 2017 03:17pm |
I also personally love that The Pirate Party is now the largest left-leaning party in the country. Seems appropriate, leftists basically steal from the producers of society and hand out the goodies to those sit on their asses all day!
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I:6738 | IndyGeorgia ( 4113.60 points) | October 22, 2017 04:20pm |
Czech Pirate Party's program points:
-Control of power and government spending through transparency and accountability
-Simplification of state bureaucracy by introducing e-government
-Protecting citizens from state-sponsored bullying, supporting small business and e-commerce, addressing capital outflow and tax avoidance via offshore financial centres
-Safeguarding civil liberties, freedom of information, freedom of speech, democracy and and increasing public participation in decision making
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I:6738 | IndyGeorgia ( 4113.60 points) | October 22, 2017 04:36pm |
Certainly left by Czech standards, but doesn't look as left as other pirate parties (Iceland comes to mind).
With all of these European elections, it's been fascinating to see the battle between the two wings of the political left: the industrial left and the urban left. UK Labour this year is a prime example of this realignment.
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I:9626 | Bojicat ( 912.46 points) | October 23, 2017 09:03am |
Not sure if you can label the Czechia results a victory of the right, or a collapse of the left. After all, both sides of the extreme, the quasi-lunatic Pirate Party and the somewhat xenophobic SPD, were equal victors. The Communists held their own. The actual way to describe this shock result, the real common denominator, is a popular revolt against the established parties, the CSSD and the KDU-CSL especially, both center-left and center right, and utterly destroyed.
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