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Europe > Czech Republic > Government

CZECH GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Administrative divisions
13 regions (kraje, singular - kraj) and 1 capital city* (hlavni mesto); Jihocesky (South Bohemia), Jihomoravsky (South Moravia), Karlovarsky, Kralovehradecky, Liberecky, Moravskoslezsky (Moravia-Silesia), Olomoucky, Pardubicky, Plzensky (Pilsen), Praha (Prague)*, Stredocesky (Central Bohemia), Ustecky, Vysocina, Zlinsky
Capital city > Geographic coordinates 50 05 N, 14 28 E Time series
Constitution
ratified 16 December 1992, effective 1 January 1993
Corruption 4.3 [47th of 160]
Diplomatic representation from the US > Mailing address
use embassy street address
Executive branch > Cabinet
Cabinet appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister
Executive branch > Chief of state
President Vaclav KLAUS (since 7 March 2003)
Flag description
two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side; note: identical to the flag of the former Czechoslovakia
Government type parliamentary democracy Time series
Independence
1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Judicial branch
Supreme Court; Constitutional Court; chairman and deputy chairmen are appointed by the president for a 10-year term
Legal system
civil law system based on Austro-Hungarian codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; legal code modified to bring it in line with Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) obligations and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal theory
Legislative branch
bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of the Senate or Senat (81 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms; one-third elected every two years) and the Chamber of Deputies or Poslanecka Snemovna (200 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
Political parties and leaders
Association of Independent Candidates-European Democrats or SNK-ED [Helmut DOHNALEK]; Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's Party or KDU-CSL [Jiri CUNEK]; Civic Democratic Party or ODS [Mirek TOPOLANEK]; Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia or KSCM [Vojtech FILIP]; Czech Social Democratic Party or CSSD [Jiri PAROUBEK]; Union of Freedom-Democratic Union or US-DEU [Jan CERNY]; Green Party [Martin BURSIK]; Independent Democrats (NEZDEM) [Vladimir ZELEZNY]; Party of Open Society (SOS) [Pavel NOVACEK]; Path of Change [Jiri LOBKOWITZ]
Political pressure groups and leaders
Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions or CMKOS [Milan STECH]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to start a business > days 24 days Time series [118th of 171]
Trademarks, residents 9,365 Time series [15th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
while threats of international legal action never materialized in 2007, 915,220 Austrians, with the support of the popular Freedom Party, signed a petition in January 2008, demanding that Austria block the Czech Republic's accession to the EU unless Prague closes its controversial Soviet-style nuclear plant in Temelin, bordering Austria

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SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Transparency International; electionworld.org; World Development Indicators database

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Czech Republic, Ceska Republika, czech rep. c, czech rep.

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voplt@fastmedia.cz
17th October 2005
The government page should be refreshed, exept the Klaus there are important changes. v* 17th October 2005
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