Personnel Instability of Municipal Assemblies in Plzeň and Ostrava

The submitted text deals with the problem of party switching in the environment of elected community bodies. The basic sample consists of the community councils of Ostrava and Plzen, two large statutory cities with city councils, and smaller councils of individual city wards, which were, or have been in existence during the last two decades. The basic question to which the text seeks an answer is to what extent individual council members were repeatedly elected in the period under study, and whether they were elected on the same platforms or whether their political party affiliations changed