Pro-Western Opposition Wins Big in Czech Senate Election, Dealing a Blow to Populist PM Babiš
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Pro-Western opposition wins big in Czech Senate election, dealing a blow to populist PM Babis
The pro-Western opposition parties won big Saturday in the Czech Republic's vote to fill one-third of the seats in Parliament's upper house, the Senate, handing a blow to the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
The ANO movement entered this year's Senate elections with the aim of defending one senatorial seat. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) announced before the elections that he had the ambition to change the situation in the upper chamber, where candidates from the current opposition have long dominated. However, this was not achieved, ANO did not win any mandates, and it also lost its only defended seat.
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Pro-Western opposition wins big in Czech Senate election, dealing a blow to populist PM Babiš
PRAGUE (AP) — The pro-Western opposition parties won big Saturday in the Czech Republic’s vote to fill one-third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, handing a blow to the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
The ANO movement had the second highest number of candidates in the second round after STAN, a total of 13. However, none of them succeeded. And it weakened by one post in the Senate. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has long said that the ANO movement does not know how to conduct Senate elections. Although he tried to stir up voters to participate in the elections on Friday via a video from Brussels, he failed. The closest fight of all ANO candidate…
The leader of the ANO movement and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš, has never experienced anything like this. The undisputed hegemon of Czech politics did not win a single mandate in this year's elections to the upper house. This is the first time in the history of his party. And it is also the first time in the history of the Czech Republic that something like this has happened to an entire government.
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