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Pirates and Mayors (Czech: Piráti a Starostové) was a liberal progressive centrist political alliance in the Czech Republic, formed for the 2021 legislative election, consisting of the Czech Pirate Party (Piráti) and Mayors and Independents (STAN). As of the 2021 Czech election it governs the Czech Republic in a coalition with the SPOLU ...
- 14 December 2020; 2 years ago
- Ivan Bartoš (Piráti)
- Vít Rakušan (STAN)
- Centre
Jun 8, 2022 · Pirates and Mayors is an electoral alliance of two political parties (Czech Pirate Party and Mayors and Independents). These parties ran separately in 2017 and jointly gained 16.0% of the votes in 2017. Přísaha was founded in 2021 and did not run in the 2017 general election.
- What Were The Results?
- Babis Concedes Defeat
- At Odds with The EU
Together, a liberal-conservative three-party Spolu coalition won 27.8% of the vote, while Pirates and Mayors, another opposition group, got 15.6%. The two alliances have won a combined 108 seats in the 200-member lower house, according to the Czech Statistics Office. The Pirates and Mayors coalition leader Ivan Bartos said they will begin talks on ...
Billionnaire Babis finally accepted the results of the vote on Saturday night but not without first lashing out at his rivals. "That's life, we understand and accept that," the 67-year-old said. But Babis accused the opposition of a "smear campaign" during the lead-up to the election. "The change is here, we are the change," said the conservative S...
Before Saturday's vote, Babis led a minority coalition government consisting of ANO and the Social Democrats, with the support of the Communists. Throughout the campaign, Babis scapegoated asylum-seekers and refugeeseven though the Czech Republic is not home to very many. He also condemned the EU's climate change plans. He has not ruled out forming...
The party contested the 2021 Czech parliamentary election as part of the alliance Pirates and Mayors with the Mayors and Independents party. The alliance gained 37 seats, out of which four are Pirate MPs, and joined the governing Cabinet of Petr Fiala with Spolu.
- 17 June 2009; 14 years ago
- Ivan Bartoš
- Na Moráni 360/3, Prague
Sep 15, 2021 · Pirates and Mayors | Photo: Czech Television. This grouping is the electoral alliance between the Pirate Party and the Mayors & Independents (STAN). The Pirate Party is seen as the party...
Mar 31, 2024 · 03/31/2024. The one-time electoral alliance of the Pirates and Mayors parties have the right to propose Czechia’s next European Commissioner under the deal created when they entered government...
Bartoš also led the party during the 2021 election, which the party contested as part of the Pirates and Mayors electoral alliance. Due to preferential voting, the Pirates received only 4 seats of the 37 seats won by the alliance.
