The Constituent National Assembly (, ) was the
unicameral
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...
parliament of the
Third Republic of Czechoslovakia
The Third Czechoslovak Republic ( cs, Třetí Československá republika, sk, Tretia česko-slovenská republika), officially the Czechoslovak Republic (, ), emerged as a sovereign state after the end of World War II, from 1945 to 1948. It was ...
from 1946 until 1948. Only one election was ever held, in
May 1946.
The Constituent National Assembly was a successor to the
Interim National Assembly. Democracy in Czechoslovakia ended in the
Czechoslovak coup d'état of February 1948, where the
Communist Party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...
took power.
Democracy was not restored until 41 years later.
Presidents of the Constituent National Assembly
References
External links
Joint Czech-Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library
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Parliaments of Czechoslovakia
1946 establishments in Czechoslovakia
1948 disestablishments
Constituent assemblies
Defunct unicameral legislatures