This year, a total of 30 groups submitted candidacies to the Ministry of the Interior for the June elections to the European Parliament. Ministry it https://twitter.com/vnitro/status/1775167490848330146 on the X network.
There are ten less candidate groups than five years ago, the number of coalitions has increased by almost half. The deadline for submitting candidate lists ended today at 4:00 p.m.
The ministry will decide by April 20 which electoral groupings have fulfilled all the requirements required by law and will thus be admitted to the elections. For the last elections to the European Parliament five years ago, 40 entities applied, including six coalitions. 39 of them were admitted to the elections. One of the parties, among other things, did not pay a contribution to cover election expenses in the amount of 15,000 crowns.
All nine parliamentary parties and movements have announced their candidacy in this year’s European elections, which will be held in the Czech Republic on June 7 and 8, with only the opposition ANO and the government’s Pirates running independently. The government ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09 are running as candidates in the last parliamentary elections as the coalition Together, the coalition of Elders and personalities for Europe was created by the government movement STAN and SLK. The opposition movement SPD put together a coalition candidate together with the non-parliamentary Tricolor.
