Budget for this autumn’s regional elections nearly 600 million crowns

The budget for this autumn’s regional elections will be 586 million crowns (38.7 million USD), the Czech Finance Ministry announced on Saturday. The sum will go towards the printing of the ballot papers, an amount will be handed to the Czech Statistical Office which collates the results, and the rest will fund the country’s 15,000 or so election committees. A spokesperson for the Finance Ministry said that this autumn’s regional elections were expected to be slightly more expensive than those held four years ago, but only marginally so.