Prague Is a Total Failure for Us, Admitted Babiš
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The ANO of Premier Babiš loses in the two largest cities and experiences a disaster in Ústí nad Labem. The mayoral party STAN celebrates the biggest gains. The opposition continues to dominate the Senate.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš admitted on Sunday that the weekend municipal elections in Prague went badly for his ruling ANO movement. He called it a total failure that ANO should think about. The chairman of the governing Motorists' Party Petr Macinka and the chairman of the ODS parliamentary group Marek Benda also consider the election result in the metropolis to be bad. The latter congratulated the victorious Mayors and Independents (STAN) and…
Andrej Babiš (ANO) claimed that the municipal elections ended in success and victory for ANO, but... His movement lost almost everywhere. It defended its victory in 6 regional cities, but fell significantly behind in Prague. And Babiš, who defended ANO leader Jan Hušbauer as a decent guy, launched a strong attack against Prague and the parties that dealt ANO an unpleasant defeat.
Prague is a total failure for us and the movement needs to think about it. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) stated this in his regular Sunday video. The movement received only 14.36 percent in the capital, practically five percentage points less than four years earlier and will almost certainly not be part of the coalition.
According to preliminary results, the ANO movement finished in fourth place in the municipal elections in the capital and failed in other major cities. However, its leader said he was satisfied with the result.
In the municipal elections, four-fifths of all precincts have been counted, with votes from the largest cities still to be counted. The final results there may not be available until Sunday night. In Prague, after counting a fifth of precincts, the STAN movement is in first place ahead of SPOLU, while ANO is in fourth. On the other hand, the movement of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš dominated the elections in Ostrava, and also succeeded in Přerov,…
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