Four-Coalition

Four-Coalition

Four-Coalition

Political party in the Czech Republic


The Four-Coalition (Czech: Čtyřkoalice), also translated as the Coalition of Four or Quad-Coalition, abbreviated to 4K, was a liberal centre-right political alliance in the Czech Republic between 1998 and 2002.

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History

The 4K was formed after the Opposition Agreement between the Czech Social Democratic Party and Civic Democratic Party (ODS), in the aftermath of the 1998 legislative election. The coalition said it aimed to provide 'real opposition' to the government.[2] The parties first participated together in the 1998 Senate election, winning 13 of the 27 seats up for election.[2]

The coalition formalised and centralised, with the merger of US and DEU to form the Freedom Union – Democratic Union (US-DEU) reducing the number of parties to three. However, the overbearing size of the KDU–ČSL – significantly larger than the others – lent instability to the coalition, as KDU–ČSL members used the coalition to promote their intra-party factions.[3] KDU–ČSL put pressure on ODA to consolidate further, either reforming its long-standing debts or merging with US-DEU.[3] ODA refused, and withdrew from the Four-Coalition as a result.

In the 2002 legislative election, KDU–ČSL and US-DEU ran on a looser joint ticket called Coalition (Koalice),[3] and won 31 seats with 14% of the vote—down from the combined 39 seats and 19% of votes in the 1998 election.

Election results

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Senate

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* Places are by number of votes gained.

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Footnotes

  1. Fiala, Petr. "Čtyřkoalice mezi integrací a rozpadem". RevuePolitika. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  2. Hanley (2008), p. 144
  3. Hanley (2008), p. 147

References

  • Hanley, Sean (2008). The New Right in the New Europe: Czech transformation and right-wing politics, 1989-2006. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-34135-6.

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