1998 Czech presidential election

none Czech Republic presidential 1993 Czech presidential election 1993 20 January 1998 2003 Czech presidential election 2003 Vaclav Havel.jpg Václav Havel Independent politician 146 52.3% President Václav Havel Independent politician Václav Havel Independent politician Indirect presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic on 20 January 1998 to elect a new president. The Parliament re-elected incumbent President Václav Havel in the second round. The arrest of an opposition candidate, Miroslav Sládek, was criticised by Havel's opponents.Občan Havel: Kouteckého nasládlá propaganda, kterou měla naštěstí rozum odmítnout i Česká televize https://blisty.cz/art/41840.html blisty.cz 4 August 2016Dvoje prezidentské volby http://www.bohumildolezal.cz/texty/u177-03.htm Bohumil Doležal 4 August 2016Havel byl zvolen prezidentem nezákonně, tvrdí dělníci http://m.domaci.eurozpravy.cz/politika/60087-havel-byl-zvolen-prezidentem-nezakonne-tvrdi-delnici/ EuroZprávy.cz 4 August 2016 Electoral system President of the Czech Republic was elected indirectly by a joint session of the Czech Parliament. Each ballot can have at most three rounds. In the first round, a victorious candidate requires an absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Given a 200-seat Chamber and an 81-seat Senate, a successful first-round candidate requires 101 deputies and 41 senators. If no single candidate gets a majority of both the Chamber and the Senate, a second round is then called for. At this stage, a candidate requires an absolute majority of merely those actually present at the time of voting in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The actual number of votes required in the second round might be the same as in the first round, but it can be a little less, due to the absence of a few parliamentarians. Nevertheless, in this second round, a single candidate would need to win a majority in both the Chamber and the Senate. Should no single candidate achieve a majority of both houses then present, a third round is necessitated. In this final round, which can happen within 14 days of the first round, an absolute majority of deputies and senators present suffices. At this stage, the individual houses of parliament are not considered separately. Assuming that all members of parliament are present, all that is required to win is 141 votes, regardless of the house of origin. If no candidate wins in the third round, another ballot has to be considered in a subsequent joint session of parliament. The process continues under the same rules until a candidate prevails. Parties in parliament PartyChamber of DeputiesSenate Endorsed candidate Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) 61 200 ČSSD 25 81 ČSSD Václav Havel Civic Democratic Party (ODS) 36 200 Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) 31 81 Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) Václav Havel Freedom Union (US) 33 200 #228b22 1 81 #228b22 Václav Havel Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) 22 200 Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia 2 81 Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Stanislav Fischer Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-ČSL) 18 200 Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party 13 81 Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party Václav Havel Rally for the Republic – Republican Party of Czechoslovakia (SPR-RSČ) 18 200 #292829 0 200 #292829 Miroslav Sládek Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) 13 200 #0000FF 7 81 #0000FF Václav Havel Democratic Union (DEU) 0 200 #6D051C 1 81 #6D051C Václav Havel Independents 0 200 #A9A9A9 1 81 #A9A9A9 Candidates Václav Havel - The incumbent president of the Czech Republic. He was supported by coalition government (US, KDU-ČSL and ODA) and opposition Czech Social Democratic Party. He was also officially supported by ODS with which he was in conflict.Lutišan Vojtěch VOLBA PREZIDENTA REPUBLIKY V ČESKÉ REPUBLICE Masaryk University Brno 24–25 Stanislav Fischer - A candidate of Communist party and Member of Parliament. Miroslav Sládek - A member of Parliament and leader of SPR-RSČ. He was in police custody at the time of election. Results Václav Havel received 130 votes in the first round and was the only candidate who qualified for the second round, as he gained the most votes in both chambers of parliament. There he received 146 votes of 279 and won by seven votes, but in the Chamber of Deputies he won by only one vote. This was controversial as Miroslav Sládek couldn't vote in the election due to his arrest. If Sládek had participated in the vote, Havel would probably have been elected in the third round. Sládek's Republican Party called Havel's victory illegal and refused to acknowledge it. The First Lady Dagmar Havlová whistled during a speech of a Republican MP Jan Vik.Deset let poté: Dagmar Havlová pískala v Parlamentu http://tn.nova.cz/clanek/zpravy/domaci/deset-let-pote-dagmar-havlova-piskala-v-parlamentu.html TN.cz 4 August 2016 19 January 20081998 - Volba prezidenta 2008 (Český rozhlas) http://www.rozhlas.cz/prezident08/prezidentskevolby/_zprava/427279 Rozhlas.cz 4 August 2016 14 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190314161233/http://www.rozhlas.cz/prezident08/prezidentskevolby/_zprava/427279 dead CandidateFirst roundSecond roundDeputiesSenatorsTotal%DeputiesSenatorsTotal%Václav Havel913913070.659947146100Stanislav Fischer2653116.85Miroslav Sládek2212312.50Total139451841009947146100 References Presidential election Presidential election Czech presidential election, 1998 1998 Czech presidential election