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The leader of SPD, Tomio Okamura, has become the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. The candidate of the incoming coalition of the ANO movement, SPD, and Motorists Themselves defeated KDU-ČSL nominee Jan Bartošek in today’s secret vote during the inaugural session of the lower house.

President Petr Pavel has invited ANO movement leader Andrej Babiš to Prague Castle next Wednesday. They will discuss the proposed program statement of the future government, which ANO is forming together with the SPD movement and Motorists. The president also wants to be informed about the steps Babiš, as a potential prime minister, intends to take regarding the conflict-of-interest law. This was reported on X by the Office of the President of the Republic.

In the first nine months of 2025, police in Czechia began investigating 102 murders, five more than during the same period last year. Overall crime in the country, however, fell slightly year-on-year by the end of September. Last year, police recorded 134,023 criminal offenses; this year, 132,908. This is according to the monthly statistics of the Police Presidium.

The year-on-year inflation rate in Czechia accelerated to 2.5 percent in October, up from 2.3 percent in September. This comes from a preliminary estimate published on Wednesday by the Czech Statistical Office (CSO). Analysts had expected inflation to remain stable, with some even considering a slight slowdown. On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices in October rose by half a percent, the statisticians reported. The CSO will release the final October inflation figure on Tuesday, November 11. In previous months, statisticians have consistently confirmed their preliminary estimates.