Jitka Volfová — a member of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, mayor of Česká Lípa, and regional councillor from the ANO movement — has announced her candidacy for the Senate in the Česká Lípa constituency, which also covers parts of the Libere
In this autumn's Czech Senate elections, several candidates running for seats in the upper house have spent years publicly campaigning against the very existence of the institution. Their argument: the only way to get rid of the Senate is t
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's government has come out swinging against the practice of passing laws without proper professional review — even as it actively relies on that very method to push bills through parliament. That's according to Ju
In the latest round of pre-election debates on the PoliTalk podcast, Senate candidates faced off: Žalud, a blind opera singer running for the ANO movement, and Smolák, the incumbent senator for STAN. The two discussed the ongoing conflict s
ANO leader Andrej Babiš has said that this year, unlike in previous years, he will barely have any time to personally take part in the campaign ahead of October's Senate and local elections. The reason is his work on the state budget, discu
A sharp conflict has erupted within the US Democratic Party between its moderate and progressive wings over Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. According to the Pew Research Center, younger and more radical Democrats side with Palestine, while
Most Czechs fear an escalation of the war in Ukraine, but among SPD voters, those who see no such threat are in the majority. This is according to an exclusive poll cited by the news outlet Novinky.Fear of escalation runs highest among supp
Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists party) has removed Jitka Panek Jurková from her post as director of the Czech Centres network — just three years into the job and only seven weeks after she gave birth. The minister did not dis
Former Czech MP for the ANO movement Lenka Balaštíková tried to twist the facts of an old scandal—her order to have a dog shot dead—in an interview with moderator Luboš Xaver Veselý. The case, which first erupted a year ago, is back in the
Czechs regard President Petr Pavel — rather than the current leaders of the parliamentary opposition — as the most visible representative of opposition to the government. This is according to a poll by the NMS agency, in which respondents w
Michal Hejcman, a professor at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem who has taken part in excavations of biblical sites in southern Israel, just 30 km from Gaza, is running for the Czech Senate in the Děčín constituency. Alt
The South Bohemian regional branch of the ODS party is gearing up for its first pre-election clash with the "Naše Chechia" (Our Czechia) movement, led by Martin Kuba — the former deputy chairman of ODS and now the region's popular governor.