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Czech Senate Runoff Ends, with Opposition Set to Retain Majority

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Voters chose senators in 22 districts as polls closed Saturday; the opposition’s Senate majority was already secure after the first round.

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The first estimates show a low turnout. It is eagerly expected that the right-wing populist party ANO of the head of government Andrej Babiš will be able to gain seats

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نُشر هذا مقاعد ولاً عبر Cedarnews.net. To follow more of the news and reports, click on our website. In the Czech Republic, the second round of this year's change of a third of the Senate continues on Saturday, in which the remaining 22 senators will be elected from a double number. تم نشر هذا الخبر عبر صوت كيدرنوس الخباري. To see more of the latest news, click on our official website.

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The second round of the Senate elections began on Friday afternoon. Voters in 22 Senate districts will choose their representatives in the upper house of Parliament for the next six years. The results will be known on Saturday afternoon after the votes are counted.

Zdeněk Papoušek (ODS) will once again be the senator in the Brno-město constituency. In the second round of the Senate elections, he received 65.81 percent of the votes. This is according to the results of the count on www.volby.cz. The second-place candidate, Karel Zitterbart (STAN), received 34.18 percent of the votes. 18.92 percent of voters participated in the second round of the elections, while 49.35 percent voted in the first round a week…

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Independent candidate Petr Kazík defeated the mayor of Orlová, Lenka Brzyszkowska from ANO, which has long dominated the Karviná region, in the Senate elections. "I came up with and put together the entire campaign concept myself. I gave up on catchy slogans," says the director of the Silesian Theatre.

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iDNES.cz broke the news in Čestlice, Czechia on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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