Teplice was nicknamed the "blue island in the red sea" under the long-serving mayor Jaroslav Kubera. While the surrounding northern Bohemia used to be a bastion of the left, the spa town was firmly in the hands of the ODS for many years. But the Sudetenland town is changing. For the last four years, the ANO party of Mayor Jiří Štábl has "reigned" at the city hall, and the legacy of the legendary senator and smoker from the ODS is slowly fading. …
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Teplice was nicknamed the "blue island in the red sea" under the long-serving mayor Jaroslav Kubera. While the surrounding northern Bohemia used to be a bastion of the left, the spa town was firmly in the hands of the ODS for many years. But the Sudetenland town is changing. For the last four years, the ANO party of Mayor Jiří Štábl has "reigned" at the city hall, and the legacy of the legendary senator and smoker from the ODS is slowly fading. …