Record win for ANO in latest election poll

Andrej Babiš's ANO party scored an unprecedented win in the latest election poll conducted by the Kantar agency, with an all-time record of 38.5 percent of the vote. This is an increase of 12 percentage points from their result in the last parliamentary elections.

Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrats finished a long way behind in second place with a 14.5 percent share of the vote, the Pirates were third with 9.5 percent, the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy party fourth with 9 percent, the Mayors and Independents fifth with 7 percent, and TOP 09 sixth with 5 percent.

In recent months, ANO has been polling at around 33 to 35 percent of the vote. According to Kantar, the key factor behind ANO's even bigger success in this survey is that they managed to woo voters from other opposition parties such as the Social Democrats and the Communist Party, which both lost support in this poll.