Czech Protest Movements in the 2014 European Parliament Elections

Abstract

This article explores the performance of ANO 2011 and Dawn of Direct Democracy—two new subjects of the post-2013 Czech party system—in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Programs and statements of both movements are analyzed in order to determine whether a link exists between protest and populist characteristics on one side and Euroscepticism on the other side.

Keywords

• party
• political party
• elections
• european parliament
• european union
• euroscepticism
• ano 2011
• dawn of direct democracy