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Tuesday should be partly cloudy and dry with day temperatures between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.

Czech Post is negotiating with the three hundred municipalities in which its branches are due to close as of July in order to find a viable solution for local residents. Following complaints from local mayors the state-owned company is now offering them the opportunity to join the Post Partner scheme under better conditions than in the past. The cost of the undertaking will be shared between the post office and the operator. Over 800 of the current 3,200 post office branches are now operated within the Post Partner scheme. Most often they are operated by village shops in the form of a single counter.

Pastors of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren will be able to officially bless same-sex unions if they wish to do so, the spokesman for the church Jiří Hofman said in a press release. The synod approved the decision at a three-day conference in Prague. The church leadership concluded that although there is not full agreement within the church on this matter the clergy should have the right to make their own decision. The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren is the second church in Czechia to allow the blessing of same-sex couples, after the Old Catholic Church.

Less than a third of the population is satisfied with the way democracy is working in Czechia and only 18 percent of Czechs believe that politicians listen to the opinions of ordinary people, suggests a survey carried out by Ipsos agency in cooperation with the Central European Digital Media Observatory.

According to the survey, some 31 percent of Czechs are satisfied with the functioning of democracy in the country, while 42 percent thought democracy wasn’t functioning well. The remaining 27 percent of respondents said they were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.