Czech Politics: Fiala government

[jan.klusacek]

Negotiations are already on-going in most places, and in South Bohemia, where Brno is the capital, there is already an agreement on a new governor. KDU-CSL (11 seats), Pirates (10), ODS+Svobodni (9) and STAN (7) have a majority in the 65-seat regional chamber. They have an agreement in place, which will see KDU-CSL Jan Grolich as the new governor. He will replace ANOs Bohumil Šimek, who governed on a ANO-CSSD-TOP09-STAN majority after the 2016 election. ANO held on to its 15 seats, but CSSD dropped from 11 to 4.

South Moravia. Anyway, thank you for good reporting.

[jan.klusacek]

How does having Covid rates that look like Spain affect them politically?

Opposition to ANO got mobilised in regional elections, older voters stayed at home (= bad result for KSCM and CSSD). According to some analysis, only 40 % of ANO voters from previous parliamentary elections participated in 2020 regional elections (compare to 80 % of ODS voters). I can't share the images, but if you find Denik N newspaper tomorrow frontpage, you can see more numbers from this analysis. ANO party was expecting a much better result.

[jan.klusacek]

The charts can be seen here with voter movements from the 2016 regional elections, 2017 parliamentary elections, 2018 presidential election and 2019 European elections.

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Thank you!

How does having Covid rates that look like Spain affect them politically?

Opposition to ANO got mobilised in regional elections, older voters stayed at home (= bad result for KSCM and CSSD). According to some analysis, only 40 % of ANO voters from previous parliamentary elections participated in 2020 regional elections (compare to 80 % of ODS voters). I can't share the images, but if you find Denik N newspaper tomorrow frontpage, you can see more numbers from this analysis. ANO party was expecting a much better result.

Do they have mail in voting for both Czech and EU elections?

There is no voting by mail in Czech Republic.

[jan.klusacek]

How do they avoid long American style lines?

There is polling station for almost every street and polls are open for long hours (Friday 2-10 PM, Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM). I've never waited in polling station, even in presidential election (highest turnout) I directly went to the voting booth.