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Czechs dwelling overseas will most likely have the ability to vote by mail within the subsequent common parliamentary elections, they won’t need to go to embassies in individual as earlier than. Immediately, the Home of Representatives accredited the controversial coalition modification on the correspondence election from overseas by the votes of the members of the federal government camp.
The opposition motion ANO failed with the proposal to re-discuss the draft within the second studying and the motion SPD to reject it. The modification will now be mentioned by senators.
Of the 168 MPs current, they voted for the draft voted 92, specifically from the coalition ODS, STAN, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09 and Pirates, in addition to unaffiliated Ivo Vondrák (previously ANO). 75 ANO and SPD deputies had been towards, one of many ANO deputies abstained from voting. Discussing the correspondence election from overseas took roughly 96 hours of pure time for the deputies within the plenary session. Deputies spent three working days and roughly 12.5 hours discussing the present last approval.
Per week in the past, on the proposal of the coalition, the Home of Representatives set a set date for voting on the type of the modification at 1:00 p.m. right this moment. In reference to this, 56 correctly registered MPs solely from the opposition didn’t get to talk. The opening spherical of the controversy took the longest, greater than 63 hours.
What’s a correspondence choice
Correspondence elections, i.e. voting by letter, are in place in most European nations. The proposal addresses elections from overseas and on the identical time opens up the chance to vote for college students who’re away from residence, for instance inside the Erasmus program.
The problem impacts not less than 300,000 Czechs who’re overseas and for whom right this moment’s election system is sophisticated, in addition to all those that are on trip on the time of the elections. On the identical time, the introduction of the precept of distant voting opens the way in which to elections on the Web.
Now, Czechs overseas can solely vote at embassies. However this requires long-distance journey of a number of hundred or greater than hundreds of kilometers.
