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Elections 2025: I Am a Feminist. but I Will Miss Michálek, Says Pirát Hřib. He Has a Women's Parliamentary Caucus

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The Pirates won 18 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the elections, 15 of which will be filled by women. The leader and chairman of the party, Zdeněk Hřib, says in an interview for iDNES Premium that he will want to change the rules of procedure of the lower house of parliament. "To make it more friendly to women and families. A third of the deputies are women. All it takes is a few enlightened people to make it happen," says Hřib.
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The Pirates won 18 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the elections, 15 of which will be filled by women. The leader and chairman of the party, Zdeněk Hřib, says in an interview for iDNES Premium that he will want to change the rules of procedure of the lower house of parliament. "To make it more friendly to women and families. A third of the deputies are women. All it takes is a few enlightened people to make it happen," says Hřib.

·Čestlice, Czechia
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The newly elected Chamber of Deputies will have a record number of women. There will be 67 of them out of 200 deputies, or a third. The largest share will be in the Pirates or the STAN movement, the representation of women in the lower chamber has been increasing for a long time. Among them will be the youngest member of the lower chamber since the founding of the Czech Republic, Julie Smejkalová (STAN). This year, the highest voter turnout in t…

The new Chamber of Deputies, resulting from the just-concluded 2025 elections, will be more diverse than the last one – both in terms of age and politics. More women will take the seats than ever before. The record turnout indicated that Czechs are more interested in the future of the state. The daily also brings up other interesting details of the elections.

After this year's elections, a record 67 women will sit in the Chamber of Deputies, exceeding a third of all deputies. At the same time, the average age of members of the Chamber has also fallen to 48.8 years. The youngest deputy, Julia Smejkalová, is 21 years old.

After this year's elections, a record 67 female MPs will sit in the Chamber of Deputies, making up a third of the total number of members of the lower house of parliament. In the last election, 50 women were elected to the Chamber of Deputies, which was also a record at the time. This is according to data from the Czech Statistical Office on the election website. In 2006, voters elected 31 women to the Chamber of Deputies, and four years earlier…

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