Inclusion of Political Parties, Movements and Coalitions in Scrutiny

(1) Using the records of the results of the elections in election regions, the Czech Statistical Office shall determine how many valid votes have been given to each political party, movement and coalition and also

a) which political parties or movements have acquired less than 5 per cent, b) which coalitions formed by 2 political parties or movements have acquired less than 10 per cent, c) which coalitions formed by 3 political parties or movements have acquired less than 15 per cent, d) which coalitions formed by at least 4 political parties or movements have acquired less than 20 per cent of the overall amount of valid votes.

(2) Such political parties, movements and coalitions shall be disregarded in the process of further determination of election results and allocation of mandates.

(3) Should the Czech Statistical Office determine in the aforementioned way that the scrutiny shall not include at least 2 coalitions, 1 coalition and 1 political party or movement or 2 political parties or movements, it shall reduce

a) the limit from 5 to 4 per cent in the case of political parties or movements, b) the limit from 10 to 6 per cent in the case of any coalition defined in Section 1, Subsection b), c) the limit from 15 to 8 per cent in the case of any coalition defined in Section 1, Subsection c), d) the limit from 20 to 10 per cent in the case of any coalition defined in Section 1, Subsection b).

If the condition specified in this Section is not met even after the application of Subsections a) through d), the Czech Statistical Office shall reduce the aforementioned limits by one per cent.

(4) All political parties, movements and coalitions included in scrutiny are allocated mandates within election regions