Following the municipal elections, a coalition of ANO, STAN and PRO Plzeň will be formed in Plzeň. Zarzycký of ANO announced it at an emergency press conference on Sunday evening. ANO will keep the mayor’s post, and STAN leader Aleš Tolar w
The ANO movement fared badly in the local elections: it lost ground in every regional capital except Plzeň and gave up its leading position on municipal councils in poorer areas. Four years ago, the movement was popular there.According to t
The deal on supplies of Russian diesel fuel to the US makes no economic sense and undermines Europe's trust in Washington, according to the author of a commentary in a Czech outlet. This is the author's point of view, not established fact.A
The European Union has created the Agile programme, designed to speed up the development of military technology, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to drones, cybersecurity and space systems. Czech companies, according to ME
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called the results of the municipal elections in Prague a “total failure” for the ANO movement. In his Sunday video review of the week, published on social media, he admitted that the party had hoped for a better
Victory in the Senate election in the Vyškov district was a test of his standing in national politics for Grolich, the South Moravian regional governor and party leader. He won outright in the first round, beating the ANO candidate by 33–34
The ANO party has declared victory in the municipal elections, even though in Prague it won only about 14.4% of the vote in preliminary counts and came fourth. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and the party’s first deputy chairman Karel Havlíček
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has ruled out running for president of Czechia again in the future. He told journalists at the ANO election headquarters after the Senate and municipal elections.In the last presidential election in 2023, Babiš l
Pirate Party chairman Zdeněk Hřib considers a lack of campaign money the party’s main problem. That is why, he says, the Pirates are launching a new fundraising project in which people can “subscribe to a better Czechia” by sending a small
According to preliminary results, the Prague election has been won by the STAN movement led by Petr Hlaváček, with more than 23% of the vote, while ODS trails by about one percentage point. Based on current counts, both forces will get 17 s
All parties except ANO will join Brno’s new city coalition. This was announced by Hruška: representation on the council will reflect the final election results. A few polling stations are still being counted, after which the seats will be a
ODS chairman Martin Kupka called the election results “a clear defeat for ANO”: in his assessment, given how many candidates the ruling movement fielded, its result in the municipal elections and the first round of the Senate elections is w