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Parliamentary election in the Czech Republic has started
Updated on 03.10.2025 – 2:00 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The right -wing populist and billionaire Andrej Babis wants to go back to power. The Liberal Conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala warns “to the east” of a slip. The decision is made on Saturday.
A trend -setting parliamentary election has started in the Czech Republic. The polling stations opened on Friday at 2 p.m. You should close for the night at 10 p.m. The more than eight million beneficiaries can still submit their vote on Saturday until 2 p.m.
The right -wing populist and billionaire Andrej Babis have good chances to return to power after four years in the opposition. The Ano of the 71-year-old party came to 29.3 percent of the vote in a survey by the Stem agency. Babis demands an end to the arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala would therefore crash to 20.5 percent with his center-right alliance Spolu (together). The ultra -right party freedom and direct democracy of the entrepreneur Tomio Okamura can hope for third place.
According to opinion researchers, up to a third of the voters were undecided shortly before the vote. In a last television duel in the TV station Nova, both challengers accused each other’s lie. Babis criticized EU projects such as the Green Deal, the migration pact and emission trade. Fiala warned that Babis would pull the land “to the east”. “Russia puts us on the rehearsal, it tests us, and so we have to do everything we can to be strong,” the 61-year-old appealed to the voters.
Like every four years, the 200 seats in the House of Representatives, the more important of the two parliamentary chambers in Prague. With a meaningful partial result of the counting, it is only expected on Saturday evening. After the election, the commitment of President Petr Pavel, who awards the government mandate. The ex-Nato general had beaten the Slovak Babis in the presidential election in January 2023.
