Deputies will discuss the correspondence election for Czech citizens abroad

f SPD Tomio Okamura broke his own record for the longest speech in the House of Representatives in January during the discussion of this proposal. He could speak for 10 hours and 44 minutes. Okamura’s long performance also complimented the speech of Fidel Castro, who, when he was re-elected to the communist leadership of Cuba in November 1998, spoke in front of the deputies for seven hours and 15 minutes without feathers.

According to the proposal, citizens abroad could vote by correspondence, who will be registered in the voter list at the local representative office. The proposal is to contest the presidential, parliamentary and European elections. For the first time, they could also vote abroad, then in the fifth year.

Whoever casts his vote in the elections from abroad will be able to vote again and differently

The rules for elections from abroad will be changed compared to the original government proposal. For example, the Constituent-First Committee supported the votes of the ptikolica, that when someone votes by correspondence and thinks about it, they will vote later in the polling station and their later personally cast vote will be counted.

The Constituent-First Committee thus supported that the votes sent by correspondence should be cast in the largest electoral districts in the Czech Republic instead of two, and that seven full powers will be able to vote. It means that voters abroad could pick up voting sets for a maximum of seven other people at the representative assembly.

The coalition decided to change the proposal after the opposition. The coalition’s effort is to prevent us from getting into a situation where elections are contested, said Marek Benda, member of the ODS parliamentary club.

So take the draft law back, responded to it the chairman of the committee, vice-chairman ANO Radek Vondrek, who before that speech confirmed something about the compromise rights of the draft law, and what the committee voted on was the result of a consensus between representatives of the coalition and the opposition.

I do not assume that we would support the law as a whole, said Schillerov

Alena Schillerov, a member of the ANO club, warned her that the agreement with the coalition on true correspondence elections does not mean that the MPs of the movement for the law will raise their hands. YES, so far it has not been possible to achieve that the correspondence election does not take place in the elections to the House of Representatives in five years, which is a primary demand of the movement.

I do not assume that we would support the law as a whole, but the debates are worth it for us to forgive the failure, if it is on the left, we will also respect it in the meantime, agree on some amendments that will reduce the risks, declared Schillerov.