GLORY TO LENIN: Communists win Czech election. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The ruling Czech party has suffered a crushing defeat in Friday and Saturday Senate and local election. Voters cast ballots to fill one third of the 81 seats in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, giving a lead to the left-wing candidates who scored their best result since the fall of the Communist regime. With 99% of the ballots counted, the center-right Civic Democrats party of Prime Minister Petar Necas is trailing in the third place with 12.3% of the vote. Social Democrats are first with 23.6%, while the far-left Communist party of the Czech Republic and Moravia is third with 20.4%. The Civic Democrats' result is half of their achievement in 2008. The Social Democrats also lost positions, compared to the 35.8% in the previous election. The Communists, hairs of the former Czechoslovak totalitarian rulers, and several small local parties, which won many more seats than four years ago, emerged as the biggest winners. However, none of the candidates for the 27 Senate seats managed to overcome the needed 50% and run-offs will be held next week. Political analyzers see the results as voters' punishment of the government for budget cuts aiming at lowering the deficit, and public tender-related corruption scandals. Necas, who is facing a no-confidence vote and a possible toppling of the cabinet, blamed the losses on austerity measures and voters' tendency to support the opposition in regional ballots. A fall of the cabinet means early election at the beginning of 2013.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144118"]http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144118[/URL] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/czech-pms-party-suffers-big-loss-regional-vote-182034350.html"]http://news.yahoo.com/czech-pms-party-suffers-big-loss-regional-vote-182034350.html[/URL]

Great sensationalist headline

be funny if they begin leading the country in a better direction.

Why [editline]14th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=CubeManv2;38029431]be funny if they begin leading the country in a better direction.[/QUOTE] it would be ironic

Good job guys! We got the peace prize. Now we can check that off the list and go back to what we were doing before. Germany, you know what to do.

The communists didn't actually win, but they were close to.

oh man now I realise why the czech guy I knew didn't think it was funny when I joked that he was a communist

[B]This is utter bullshit. [/B] Communists gained a lot but they won't have anything more than share local authority seats with Social Democrats. I am mainly glad my candidate for senate nominated by Pirates made it to the second round and will hopefully win it. [IMG]http://sinus.cz/%7Emilan/regions.png[/IMG] [URL="http://www.novinky.cz/volby/kraje-2012/"]Original interactive map including exact percentages per region[/URL] This is the result of [B]REGIONAL[/B] elections into LOCAL AUTHORITIES. The parties will elect their people into the city local councils. They have [B]VERY LITTLE POWER, STATE-WISE[/B]. Let me point our whole country is only 10M citizen one and these regions are administratively tinier than anything you know if you are from UK or USA. Social Democracy got majority in most regions, Communists being close second. Senate elections will get into second round sometime soon, but again, senate is not THAT important, and only 27 out of the total of 81 people get elected anyway.

Anybody has a free, empty room in their house? I need to move out of this country. Also nobody fucking voted.

[QUOTE=J-RcZ;38030108]Anybody has a free, empty room in their house? I need to move out of this country. Also nobody fucking voted.[/QUOTE] Come stay with me, just don't touch the Ellie Kendrick posters... Might be a little sticky ;)

Communist is a bit general, are they any specific type of communist? They can't be that bad if people are voting for them.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;38030150]Communist is a bit general, are they any specific type of communist? They can't be that bad if people are voting for them.[/QUOTE] They are sadly the kind of communists who have sub group of officials which sent official open letter to North Korea when Kim died, stating deep distraught and pointing out Kim was a great soldier for good of the people, relentless warrior against the corrupt western imperialism, and god knows all what. I believe there are decent reasonable people in the party, but there are some that are fucking [B]nuts[/B].

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;38030150]Communist is a bit general, are they any specific type of communist? They can't be that bad if people are voting for them.[/QUOTE] Oh, they are bad, but old people vote for them because they were young, healthier etc when communist reigned so for them communist=good times. That's a fact. I'm dead serious.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38030204]They are sadly the kind of communists who have sub group of officials which sent official open letter to North Korea when Kim died, stating deep distraught and pointing out Kim was a great soldier for good of the people, relentless warrior against the corrupt western imperialism, and god knows all what. I believe there are decent reasonable people in the party, but there are some that are fucking [B]nuts[/B].[/QUOTE] Well, any party has factions. The more radical a party is generally, all the more radical its outliers will be. [editline]14th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=J-RcZ;38030212]Oh, they are bad, but old people vote for them because they were young, healthier etc when communist reigned so for them communist=good times. That's a fact. I'm dead serious.[/QUOTE] It's probably more complex than that.

it's interesting how the minority party regions border germany and austria.

[QUOTE=Megafan;38030373]It's probably more complex than that.[/QUOTE] Nope. 90% of communist voters are old people that are voting them from nostalgia. Seriously, they did a research.

[QUOTE=J-RcZ;38030477]Nope. 90% of communist voters are old people that are voting them from nostalgia. Seriously, they did a research.[/QUOTE] And where might this study be? Even so, all I meant was that it's likely not as black and white as "all the old people voting in the crazies out of nostalgia".

Usually I presume anything to do with 'Communist' in Europe is just watered down leftism which resembles social democracy.

[QUOTE=Megafan;38030500]And where might this study be? Even so, all I meant was that it's likely not as black and white as "all the old people voting in the crazies out of nostalgia".[/QUOTE] A fairly reliable political magazine did it (Can't remember the name, I read it like 5 years ago), don't know if you can find it online. You would not believe how many people said "I voted the communist because everything was better, I had a job and I was young".

So its pretty interesting that a hard-left contingent still exists

[QUOTE=J-RcZ;38030633]A fairly reliable political magazine did it (Can't remember the name, I read it like 5 years ago), don't know if you can find it online. You would not believe how many people said "I voted the communist because everything was better, I had a job and I was young".[/QUOTE] But that's still anecdotal, and may only be representative of the people in your area, if anything.

[quote]The Communists, [B]hairs[/B] of the former Czechoslovak totalitarian rulers,[/quote] :v:

This shall spark a revolution that will engulf the europe in a glorious red dawn that will liberate the oppressed workers from the darkness of capitalist government and fatcats of the bank companies. Glory to the workers across the world! [IMG]http://see-aych.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/soviet-communist-poster.jpg[/IMG] [sp]but seriously, capitalism has been sucking dicks lately, back in the good old days of communism, some retards thousand kilometers away couldnt just decide "LOL YOU GUYS CAN'T PRODUCE SUGAR ANYMORE" for no reason at all[/sp]

[QUOTE=smeismastger;38030866]but seriously, capitalism has been sucking dicks lately, back in the good old days of communism, some retards thousand kilometers away couldnt just decide "LOL YOU GUYS CAN'T PRODUCE SUGAR ANYMORE" for no reason at all[/QUOTE] A very weird and oddly specific joke, but okay.

[QUOTE=smeismastger;38030866] [sp]back in the good old days of communism, some retards thousand kilometers away couldnt just decide "LOL YOU GUYS CAN'T PRODUCE SUGAR ANYMORE" for no reason at all[/sp][/QUOTE] Well... they could. Back then it was called the government.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38029860][B]This is utter bullshit. [/B] Communists gained a lot but they won't have anything more than share local authority seats with Social Democrats. I am mainly glad my candidate for senate nominated by Pirates made it to the second round and will hopefully win it. [IMG]http://sinus.cz/%7Emilan/regions.png[/IMG] [URL="http://www.novinky.cz/volby/kraje-2012/"]Original interactive map including exact percentages per region[/URL] This is the result of [B]REGIONAL[/B] elections into LOCAL AUTHORITIES. The parties will elect their people into the city local councils. They have [B]VERY LITTLE POWER, STATE-WISE[/B]. Let me point our whole country is only 10M citizen one and these regions are administratively tinier than anything you know if you are from UK or USA. Social Democracy got majority in most regions, Communists being close second. Senate elections will get into second round sometime soon, but again, senate is not THAT important, and only 27 out of the total of 81 people get elected anyway.[/QUOTE] attendance 37%? jesus christ that's awful

Yeah, why did so few people vote?

[QUOTE=Megafan;38030891]A very weird and oddly specific joke, but okay.[/QUOTE] Can't remember which country, Latvia or Estonia (possibly both) were banned from producing sugar and salt by EU. [QUOTE=mac338;38030913]Well... they could. Back then it was called the government.[/QUOTE] Not without very good reasons

[QUOTE=Beaverlake;38030965]Yeah, why did so few people vote?[/QUOTE] Nobody gave shit about these elections, they are not really that important.

[QUOTE=smeismastger;38030994]Can't remember which country, Latvia or Estonia (possibly both) were banned from producing sugar and salt by EU.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'd need a citation to believe that.