WORLD : Czech Elections Set June 8, 9
The first free elections in Czechoslovakia in more than four decades will be held on June 8 and 9, Parliament announced today.
The balloting for both houses of Parliament will be based on the principle of proportional representation, said a Parliament statement carried by the official CTK news agency. Parties will need 10,000 signatures to run a candidate and at least 5% of the national vote for a mandate, CTK said.
Czechoslovakia’s peaceful revolution late last year toppled the hard-line Communist leadership of Milos Jakes, ending more than 40 years of Communist rule and paving the way for the first free elections since 1946.
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