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Abstract
This year’s early elections to the Chamber of Deputies brought neither calm nor a left-wing majority to the Czech political scene. To the contrary, we experienced the greatest shock to the party system since the 1998 elections, the rise of new political parties and anti-political, populist entities, i.e. a deepening of trends which appeared already in the 2010 elections.
The overall surprise at the election results was complemented on the very next day by a row within the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).