Komunální volby v roce 1998 – mezník ve vývoji české komunální politiky?
Municipal Elections in 1998 – Turning Point in the Development of the Czech Municipal Politics?

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the importance of municipal elections in the Czech Republic in 1998. Development trends of Czech municipal politics are illustrated on the example of four towns of the Plzen region – Klatovy, Susice, Domazlice and Tachov, whose population is larger than 10.000 inhabitants and can display quite a variable range of candidating subjects. The author shows how conditions of municipal elections changed between 1994 and 1998 depending on the development of Czech transformation and disillusions in the Czech public caused by unfulfilled expectations connected with the transformation. On the ground of analysis of the municipal elections in the four above mentioned towns the author draws the conclusion that the elections of 1998 were a real turning point – in three towns out of four there was a radical change in the town halls leading positions, when the Obcanska demokraticka strana (Civic Democratic Party) was replaced with mayors elected for CSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party). In the followed region the municipal elections brought back the process already seen in the June parliamentary elections.

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