The Influence of Political Parties´ Coalitions on the Electoral Program Fulfillment

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of political parties in Bohuslav Sobotka´s government, which concerns political promises and declarations. The analysis focused specifically on the fulfilment of the coalition party promises of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka´s government The input data of the research consisted of a prepared set of testable political promises from the pre-election programs of selected political parties. The promises were compared with the contents of the coalition agreement, the government's policy statement. It was found that coalition political parties selected by the government within the framework of coalition cooperation managed to enforce approximately 36 % of their election promises. At program level, 24 % of promises were enforced. In areas that increase the personal budget of voters, government political parties have pushed 76 % of promises. Regardless of their cooperation, they made approx. 52 % of the election promises during the parliamentary term. The dominant party of the government was the CSSD.