This past weekend’s elections in the Czech Republic show the ideological permissiveness of populism. Czech voters dallied with a dizzying array of populist parties from extreme Right to extreme Left, with multiple shades in-between. In a proportional representation system with a 5 percent threshold, three of these parties together garnered 50 percent of the votes.ANO (“yes” in Czech, as well as an acronym for Association of Dissatisfied Citizens) came first with 30 percent of the vote. It has a vaguely centrist ideology and is a member of the group of liberal parties in the European parliament.The Pirate Party, a Czech …read more
Source: The American Interest
