The ex-prime minister’s party won the by-elections in the Czech Republic, but the coalition retained the majority

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According to the results of the re-election of a third of the composition of the Czech Senate in two rounds of elections on September 20-21 and 27-28, the government coalition of five parties retains the majority, but the party of former Prime Minister Andrej Babis ANO improved the result.

Source: “European truth” with reference to Novinky

Details: According to preliminary estimates, Babiš’s ANO movement won a total of eight of the 27 seats in the Senate up for re-election in the last elections – two in the first round and six in the second. This is the largest result for a single party.

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In this case, ANO together with the Social Democratic Party of the Czech Republic will have 13 senators instead of the current six.

At the same time, the five parties of the government coalition of the Czech Republic won 15 senators, which will allow it to retain the majority in the upper house of the parliament.

The ODS party of Prime Minister Petr Fiala received the most mandates – six, five mandates – from the “Mayors and Independents” movement, two – from the Christian Democrats KDU-ČSL, and one mandate from the liberal-conservatives TOP 09.

The Czech Communists, who showed a good result in the regional elections as part of the left bloc, could not get their candidate to the Senate.

Instead, the far-right populist party “Přísaha” (Přísaha), whose leader Robert Schlacht won in Brzecław and will become a senator, will enter the parliament for the first time.

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, after the publication of the first results of the by-elections to the Senate, has already managed to declare that the government coalition has defeated the opposition.

What preceded: On September 20-21, the Czech Republic held regional elections and re-election of a third of the Senate (the upper house of the parliament), as a result of which the party of ex-prime minister Andrej Babis ANO won.

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