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09/22/2024
Czech President Petr Pavel has said that the results of the regional elections are a signal to the government regarding which regions it should pay more attention to ahead of next year's general elections. Asked to comment on the outcome of the elections by the CTK news agency, Mr. Pavel said that the elections should not be taken as a referendum on the government, because they revolve around regional issues and moreover Prague did not take part in the vote which tends to distort the big picture when it cames to support for the ruling coalition. The president said it was too early to make a comprehensive assessment, since regional coalitions are still being put together.
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09/22/2024
Ukraine has provided the Czech Republic with a shipment of 40 dryers to help in the clean-up effort of the flooded regions, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said on the X network on Sunday. According to the Czech foreign minister diplomats from the Consulate General in Lviv are transporting them to the Czech border from where they will be taken to the firefighters' warehouse in Hlučín.
The European Commission said on Friday that hundreds of dryers are being sent to Czechia, through the EU's civil protection system, by Slovenia, Belgium, Croatia and Germany.
EC President Von der Leyen said earlier this week that 10 billion euros would be made available from EU cohesion funds to Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Austria which all experienced severe flooding. Two billion euros should fall to the Czech Republic.
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09/22/2024
The flood-ravaged town of Bohumín in the Karviná region is asking the government for help in dealing with the problems brought on by the floods. Electricity supplies from the flooded power station in Pudlov has been restored, but the town is not able to supply heat and hot water to thousands of inhabitants and the authorities fear they will not able to resolve the problem before the onset of cold weather. Two thirds of the town’s heat and water boiler facilities are reported to have been completely destroyed by the floods.
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09/22/2024
Monday should be clear to partly cloudy with daytime highs between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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09/22/2024
Just over half of Czechs (53 %) are dissatisfied with the current government of Petro Fiala and would welcome its demise, according to the results of a flash poll conducted by Data Collect for Czech Television. Fifty-three percent of respondents would like to see the government resign or fall, and 51 percent would welcome a cabinet re-shuffle. Some 68 percent of respondents think that the results of the regional elections should be reflected in national politics. And 59 percent would also like to see regional elections draw more attention to regional issues.
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09/22/2024
Martin Kuba, the highly popular governor of South Bohemia, who secured the Civic Democratic Party’s victory in the region, has stressed that his victory cannot be ascribed to party politics and criticized the Civic Democrats’ "anti-Babiš" strategy in campaigning. In an interview for Novinky.cz, the South Bohemian governor indirectly criticized Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s leadership of the party, saying that the Civic Democrats could not present as a success the fact that they could by-pass the winner of the elections in some regions and arguing that the party’s "anti-Babiš" strategy in the elections lacked content. “We built our campaign around what South Bohemians are interested in and we got votes from people who would never vote for the Civic Democrats” Kuba said. He said that politics should not be done "against" something, but "for" something. Commentators suggest that Kuba is a serious rival for party leader Petr Fiala.
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09/22/2024
The Pardubice Region has already announced an agreement on a coalition government in the region for the next four years, the CTK news agency reported early on Sunday. It will be governed by a coalition of Martin Netolický’s 3PK regional grouping, ANO, the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and the Coalition for the Pardubice Region. Under the agreement, Martin Netolický should remain the Pardubice regional governor.
In other regions, talks are only just getting underway. The ANO party which secured a resounding victory in the elections will be able to govern alone in 3 regions. However, similarly as in the last elections, it may see efforts to by-pass it in other regions.
Martin Kuba, the highly popular governor of South Bohemia, who secured the Civic Democratic Party’s victory in the region, won by such a wide margin that he does not need to look for a coalition partner.
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09/22/2024
Political commentators say the Pirate Party of the ruling coalition may consider leaving the government and attempting a restart with a new political leadership. The present leadership headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Bartoš has offered its resignation. The cabinet would survive their departure now, but in the future, it could be a problem for the parties in the governing coalition if the Pirates do not get into the lower house since without them, it might be difficult to form a viable coalition, Josef Mlejnek of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University told the CTK news agency.
The ANO party faces a similar problem in the persistent lack of potential coalition partners at the national level, Ladislav Mrklas from CEVRO University in Prague. pointed out.
Pundits contacted by the CTK also expressed the view that after the success of South Bohemian governor Martin Kuba, there may be a shake-up within the ruling Civic Democratic Party, but they do not expect an earthquake in the party in view of the 2025 general elections.
Commentators also highlighted the success of the Stačilo! (Enough!) coalition which benefitted the Communists and Social Democrats.
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09/22/2024
The opposition ANO party of former prime minister Andrej Babiš has won a resounding victory in the regional elections, winning in 10 out of 13 regions where voting took place. It secured altogether 292 seats on regional councils.
The ruling Civic Democrats secured 106 seats, the Mayors and Independents got 73. The Christian Democrats won 49 seats, the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy Party got 32 and TOP 09 won 16 seats. Twenty regional seats went to the Mayors for Liberec, who are affiliated with the Mayors and Independents at the national level.
The Pirate Party of the ruling coalition took a beating, gaining a mere three seats on regional councils.
Among the parties outside of the Chamber of Deputies, the Communist Party secured 32 seats on regional councils, the Social Democrats won 13 and regional grouping PRO seven.
Compared to the election results four years ago, ANO gained the most, winning an additional 114 regional representatives. The Communist Party gained an additional 19 seats, while the Civic Democrats got 7 more.
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09/21/2024
Pirate Party leader Ivan Bartoš has said that in view of the party’s dismal showing in the regional elections the party leadership will offer its resignation at an upcoming party conference which is expected to analyze the reasons for the party’s poor showing. He expressed disappointment with the outcome of the vote, saying that Pirate councilors in the regions had done a lot of good work. The party leader himself has been under fire in recent weeks over the bungled digitization of the construction permits system.
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