Labour and Social Affairs Minister Aleš Juchelka (ANO) snapped on Monday at a reporter who tried to stop him in a corridor with a voice recorder: “You are doing obnoxious journalism.” The journalist wanted an answer to a simple question — w
Robert Šlachta, leader of the Oath movement, is considering leaving the ANO Senate club, of which he has been a member until now. He said so in Sunday’s debate programme on Czech Television, explaining his decision by the events of recent d
Just a week ago it seemed that Orlová mayor Lenka Bžišková was headed for the Senate. She won the most votes in the first round, and Karviná is considered a stronghold of the ANO movement, so both the party leadership and analysts expected
The highest turnout in the second round of the Senate elections was in the Plzeň-City district, where 27.24% of voters went to the polls. That is well above the national runoff average of 21.12%. Opposition candidate Karel Řehka won, and wh
The ANO movement failed to win a single seat in the Czech Senate in the second round of the elections. Almost all of its candidates received fewer votes in the runoff than in the first round, while their rivals often gained votes instead. M
The governing ANO movement won no seats in the Senate in the second round of the election — for the first time since the party was founded. Party leader and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced a “reset” of the party on Saturday and promis
David Smoljak of the STAN movement has defended his Senate seat for Prague 9. The screenwriter, playwright and politician has sat in the Senate since 2019. On Saturday at the STAN election headquarters, he explained how he assesses the resu
Newly elected senator Martin Puta is ready to give up his immunity in a corruption case. He said he would vote for his own extradition to criminal prosecution so that a court can reach a decision as soon as possible.Even before the second r
The Czech Society of Art Historians has sharply criticised the make-up of the committee that the Ministry of Culture set up to find a new director general of the National Gallery in Prague. According to society chairman Marek Pokorný, the c
Czechia’s autumn elections, for the Senate and for local councils, ended in defeat for the ruling ANO movement: it won not a single Senate seat and lost votes and seats in most regional centres. The main winners were a united opposition and
The Mayors and Independents movement (STAN) won the second round of the Senate elections: the party took nine seats, and together with Marek Ošťádal, who is due to join its caucus, it holds 11 seats — exactly as many as it was defending. Th
The balance of power in the Czech Senate has barely changed after this year's elections: opposition losses are minimal, and the governing parties gained nothing at all. Although some party leaders wanted otherwise, the senators' clubs will