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
Andrej Babiš’s ANO movement has clearly weakened in the municipal elections in Czechia’s big cities. With 96.8% of polling stations counted, it is on 13.45% of the vote nationwide, compared with 16.60% four years ago — a drop of 3.15 percen
The Motorists party flopped in Prague’s municipal election: with more than half of the votes counted, the list led by Klára Sovová had just over 2%. That is roughly what the party won four years ago, in its first-ever election, although the
According to preliminary results of the first round of the Senate elections, candidates from STAN and from coalitions including the People’s Party are leading in several districts. The figures reflect a partial count.Where a clear leader ha
At the Senate elections in Czechia, some voters were unable to vote in their home districts because they were still on the special list of voters abroad. According to Seznam Zprávy, this affected people who had previously voted by post or a
The White House has a new press secretary: Zakharia, a longtime supporter of Donald Trump. Announcing the appointment, the president called her a “loyal and magnificent” supporter and added that she had taken part in his election campaigns
The highest turnout in the 2022 local elections was in the municipality of Kyje in the Jičín district: 98.3% of eligible voters cast a ballot. Radimovice near Tábor (98.2%) and Kukle in the Svitavy district (97.3%) also cleared the 97% mark