Czech Local Elections Deliver Warning to Babis’s Governing Coalition
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The winners of the municipal elections will be decided only by post-election negotiations on who will govern in the cities and towns. But the triumph of the STAN movement in Prague counts, as do the senatorial seats of the candidates who were elected in the first round. The long-time mayor of Vsetín, Jiří Čunek, did not succeed in the elections and will not run for any other position in the city. But he is not the main loser of the elections.
The specificity of Czech local elections is best seen in the dramatically different vote counts for individual parties, the number of seats they received, and their coalition strengths. Independent committees and municipal movements prevail in each. The priority of individual political parties depends on the interpretation of the results. Who won? It depends on who you ask. Prime Minister and leader of the ANO movement, Andrej Babiš, without wai…
On Saturday, the leaders of the movement, Andrej Babiš (72) and Karel Havlíček (57), did not spare superlatives over the election results, which in reality did not turn out well for ANO at all at the municipal level. The statistics speak clearly: in this year's race, the Mayors scored the most points! Political scientist Jan Kubáček then spoke in the Blesk studio about what Babiš must do to avoid ending up like Miroslav Kalousek (65). Why did he…
The results from the largest cities show whether a given party succeeded in the elections or not. There is a noticeable shift in political forces, which in a number of cities will mean the collapse of existing coalitions. The main winner is the STAN movement, which strengthened in all regional cities, including Prague (here by five seats). The editorial team compared mandates where the Mayors were the proposers of the given candidate. https://pu…
The voters decided. Prague was narrowly won by the STAN movement in the municipal elections, followed by SPOLU pro Prahu, Praha sobe and the ANO movement. The Pirates also made it to the council. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's movement then won several regional cities. In Brno, however, the coalition of the People's Party and STAN won by a significant margin. According to political scientist Michal Pink from Masaryk University in Brno, it is the …
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