Stačilo! is a political coalition formed from talks on creating a non-liberal left in the Czech Republic, made up of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, the Czech National Social Party and the Association of Democrats – Association of Independents.
Stačilo! is a political coalition that emerged from talks on forming a non-liberal left in the Czech Republic. The coalition consists of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), the Czech National Social Party (ČSNS) and the Association of Democrats – Association of Independents (SD-SN).[1]
Programme and character
According to an academic paper published by Mendel University in Brno, the coalition builds its programme around themes tied to an alternative to the liberal-democratic framework, and the paper assesses its character as anti-system in relation to the current political order.[1] The same paper names questions of globalisation, peace policy and social issues among the key themes of the programme.[1]
2024 elections
In 2024 the coalition took part in the European Parliament elections and the regional elections, winning seats in both.[1] In the regional elections in the Liberec Region, the coalition formed by the communists and the Czech National Social Party received 4.99 per cent of the vote.[2]
Disputes over the registration of the candidate list
The Regional Court in Brno assessed Stačilo! as an undeclared coalition that, in the court's view, breaks the law. It did not annul the registration of the movement's candidate list for the regional elections in the Vysočina Region, however, because other parties circumvent the law in the same way.[3] Motions to cancel the registration of the candidate list were filed by the movement Česká republika na 1. místě! and the party Volt Česko.[3] The Ministry of the Interior subsequently stated that regional courts had rejected all motions to cancel the registration of candidate lists for the October elections.[3]
Dispute over the election result in the Liberec Region
In the regional elections in the Liberec Region, Stačilo! was nine votes short of entering the regional assembly, according to calculations by the Czech Statistical Office.[2] Acting on the coalition's complaint, the Constitutional Court ordered a recount of the votes in five disputed polling districts: two in Liberec, two in Křižany and one in Kacanovy.[2] During the recount, the Regional Court in Liberec found four votes in the coalition's favour rather than the nine needed, namely three votes in the Kacanovy district and one in the Křižany district, as court spokesperson Karolina Francová stated.[2] In a resolution of 6 January 2025 the court again rejected the coalition's motion to invalidate the elections, so the composition of the regional assembly did not change.[2] According to the resolution, the court also found errors indicating inconsistent work by the district election commissions in the municipalities of Kacanovy and Křižany, which had no effect on the election result.[2]
KSČM spokesperson Roman Roun said of the decision that the resolution did not testify to the quality of the court's work, adding that at the time of his statement Stačilo! had not yet received the decision in its data mailbox and that further steps, including a possible appeal to the Constitutional Court, would be considered.[2] The Liberec Region governor Martin Půta (SLK) said he was glad that the assembly would not change and glad of the results of the regional court's review, but in his view the recount results showed that the parties should choose the members of election commissions better.[2] Půta also did not rule out that the recount result might give the Stačilo! coalition arguments for a further appeal.[2]
The 2024 elections in the Liberec Region were won for the fourth time by Starostové pro Liberecký kraj with 34.74 per cent of the vote and twenty of the 45 seats; second place went to the ANO movement with eighteen assembly members.[2] Voting took place in 582 districts, and voters cast 114,701 envelopes in the regional elections, so the court recounted less than one per cent of them.[2]
Sources
- Mendelova univerzita v Brně — 1 January 2025
- Česká televize — 6 January 2025
- Česká televize — 1 January 2024