Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:47:44 +0200https://english.radio.cz/will-government-survive-oppositions-landslide-victory-regional-and-senate-8590927© 2026 Radio Prague International Regional and Senate elections took place in the Czech Republic over the weekend in which the opposition Social Democrats defeated the parties of the governing coalition. The strongest opposition party scored a comprehensive victory, winning in all of the 13 regions of the Czech Republic. Social Democrat candidates also made it to the second round in all but one of the 27 electoral districts for the Senate where the poll was held. The relatively high turnout – just over 40 percent – suggests that Czech voters took these elections more seriously than previous ballots for both the regions and the Senate. To discuss the results of the elections and the effect they may have on the Czech political scene, I am now joined in the studio by Jaroslav Plesl, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Lidové Noviny, and Jan Macháček, a columnist for the weekly Respekt. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/volby_cssd_6.jpg?timestamp=1591354957 https://english.radio.cz/will-government-survive-oppositions-landslide-victory-regional-and-senate-8590927 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9