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10/12/2026
Talks on forming new coalitions are underway around the country in the wake of the weekend municipal and Senate elections.
A coalition agreement for Prague City Hall should be finalised in November, Petr Hlaváček, of the Mayors and Independents (STAN), and Prague’s likely new mayor, told Czech Television.
Hlaváček said he had held a brief meeting on Sunday with Tomáš Portlík (Civic Democrats), the lead candidate of the SPOLU alliance. Formal talks are scheduled for Monday, after which Hlaváček will also meet representatives of Praha Sobě and the Pirates.
Portlík said on Sunday that as the winner of the municipal elections in the capital, the Mayors and Independents had the right to nominate the mayor.
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10/12/2026
The National Coalition for Combating Drought will meet on Monday to assess the hydrological situation, including measures taken so far and further steps to address the ongoing extreme drought. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) will join experts at the meeting.
Babiš called the meeting a day after reports that the Husinec reservoir in South Bohemia had become the first Czech dam to dry up. On Tuesday, the South Bohemian Region declared a drought emergency across the region, allowing it greater flexibility in managing water releases from reservoirs.
Water shortages have also been declared on the Vltava and Elbe rivers in Central Bohemia.
However, all reservoirs supplying drinking water remain sufficiently full, with no threat to supplies, Petr Kubala, head of the Vltava River Basin Authority, told the Czech News Agency.
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10/12/2026
The laureates of this year’s Forum 2000 International Award for Courage and Responsibility are three Burmese dissidents: Tayzar San, Nan Lin and Htet Myat Aung. The award was also presented in Prague on Sunday evening to the General Strike Coordination Body (GSCB), a coalition bringing together opposition movements in the country.
The announcement marked the opening of the 2026 edition of the Forum 2000 conference, which is being attended by more than 800 guests from 100 countries around the world. Among them are several current and former presidents, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates and other politicians, diplomats and activists.
Forum 2000 was founded in 1996 by Czech President Václav Havel, Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
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10/12/2026
The Irish horse Final Orders has won the Velká pardubická steeplechase, the second consecutive year for an Irish-trained contender. Following Stumptown's victory last year, the ten-year-old gelding, with jockey Keith Michael Donoghue in the saddle secured victory in the home straight, narrowly beating the Czech favourite Godfrey, one of two winners of the 2024 edition.
Ten horses took part in this year's prestigious race, the smallest field since 1993.
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10/11/2026
Freedom and Direct Democracy deputy chairman Radim Fiala says that the party cannot describe their results in local elections as a success. Speaking on CNN Prima News on Sunday, Mr. Fiala said the grouping would convene a national conference to analyse the results at which its leadership would be held to account.
Freedom and Direct Democracy earned 166 seats in municipal elections held on Friday and Saturday. At the last such elections in 2022 the party won 492.
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10/11/2026
It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Tuesday is also expected to be bright.
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10/11/2026
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš says US President Donald Trump’s deal to import diesel from Russia is a major slap in the face for Europe. Mr. Babiš told reporters on Saturday evening that he regarded the agreement as shocking in view of the fact that Trump had long criticised Europe for buying the commodity from Russia.
The Czech PM said if Europe did not realise it needs to take action in response to this move the matter would end badly and that he was interested to see what positions other European leaders would take. An EU summit is set to take place next Thursday and Friday.
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10/11/2026
The opposition Mayors and Independents party came first in municipal elections in Prague, with 23 percent of the vote. They finished ahead of an alliance of the Civic Democrats and TOP 09 (Together for Prague, Spolu pro Prahu), who secured 22 percent of the vote, and Prague Together (Praha sobě), on 18 percent. Government leaders ANO came fourth in the capital with 14 percent, ahead of the Pirates on 9 percent.
The electoral leader of the Mayors and Independents in Prague, Petr Hlaváček, ruled out forming a city government with ANO and said his party would hold talks Together for Prague, Prague Together and the Pirates in the coming days.
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10/11/2026
Political scientists told the Czech News Agency that the results of municipal elections and elections to one-third of seats in the Senate can be regarded as a success for two opposition groupings: the Mayors and Independents and, in large part due to the first-round victory of party leader Jan Grolich in the Senate, the Christian Democrats.
The Civic Democrats, the opposition party with most seats in the lower house, did not perform well. The three parties in the governing coalition – ANO, Freedom and Direct Democracy and the Motorists – also had reason for disappointment, though leader Andrej Babiš said the elections showed that ANO was still the strongest party in the country.
Nevertheless, the composition of the Senate will not be known until after next weekend’s run-offs, while practical success in municipal elections will only become clear once coalitions have been formed at local government level.
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10/11/2026
Various local associations of independent candidates took the most seats in municipal elections held around the Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday, a phenomenon seen every time such votes are held.
The most successful national political party were the Christian Democrats, ahead of the Mayors and Independents, government leaders ANO, who came first in six of 13 regional cities, and the Civic Democrats. Turnout was 47 percent.
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