Czechoslovakia to Vote June 8-9 for Parliament
This country’s first free elections in more than four decades will be held June 8 and 9, Parliament announced Tuesday.
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.
Czechoslovakia’s peaceful revolution last year toppled hard-line Communist leader Milos Jakes, paving the way for the first free elections since 1946.
In keeping with a decision to streamline the country’s legislative body, the number of seats in the House of People, one of Parliament’s two chambers, has been reduced from 200 to 150.
Of those, 101 will go to candidates in the Czech lands, while 49 will be allocated to deputies from the country’s smaller republic, Slovakia, CTK said.
The 150 seats in the House of Nations were divided evenly.
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