"Czech opposition [so Babis] fights postal voting plan with Trump-like rhetoric"
"“The explanation [for wanting postal voting] is simple. To hold on to power and public office, in an attempt to manipulate the electoral system in favor of the ruling parties,” Babiš said in a speech to the lower house of parliament last week.
The government wants to allow Czechs living abroad to vote by post, starting from the 2025 parliamentary election. At present, voting from abroad requires a trip to an embassy (for all elections except European Parliament and Senate ballots, for which Czechs have to head home). But the planned new rules would change that, affecting some 400,000 to 600,000 Czechs living abroad (although experts POLITICO spoke to said the number of potential voters using the new system would likely be no more than 100,000). In the last parliamentary election, in 2021, around 13,000 people abroad voted.
“The proposal in its current form is incredibly complicated … lots of people will think twice before they actually go through with it,” political scientist Lubomír Kopeček told POLITICO.
The lower chamber of parliament, in which the government coalition has a majority, approved the legislation in a first reading on Thursday."
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