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Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

Oliver Adámek described the results of STAN in Prague as a triumph and wrote that the party strengthened in almost all city districts. He attributed this to the work of Petr Hlaváček and his team, as well as to the outcomes of promoting major projects. He considered STAN, Prague itself, and the Pirates to be the programmatically most suitable coalition at the magistrate. According to him, the disrupted relationships between Hlaváček and Adam Scheinherr from the campaign hindered it, and part of the leadership of Prague's STAN preferred cooperation with ODS. Adámek also pointed out the differences between STAN and SPOLU in transportation and housing: Hlaváček advocated for urban housing construction, parking restrictions, prioritization of public transport, and tolls in the city center, while the leader of SPOLU criticized the Prague development company and rejected the idea of the city building apartments. He concluded that without concessions from one of the parties, major agreements might not succeed again. He also described a coalition of STAN and SPOLU, extended by Prague itself or the Pirates, as possible but unlikely. He stated that the larger parties would have to give up seats they did not need, leading to an even more disparate grouping. He deemed SPOLU's result as decent, but also noted that the coalition weakened in most city districts and could lose mayors. According to him, the Pirates were losing everywhere, while Prague itself attracted liberal voters; he cited city districts Prague 1, 8, 6, and 10 as examples. #Praha #obecnívolby #politika (translated)

David Rangl described the significant drop of the SPD as the most positive news of the elections. He stated that, in his opinion, the party did not succeed in their district or at the Prague city hall. According to him, SPD politicians Urban and Čížek will once again withdraw from public affairs. #volby #praha #SPD (translated)

David Rangl published a text that he described as a transcript of Andrej Babiš's response to a question regarding the ANO party's results in Prague. In it, Babiš was attributed with the claim that the movement did not lose, only received fewer votes, and that the result was bad. The text further connected the European Union with a green lemon, the electoral failure of Motorists with parking, and Tomio Okamura with not exceeding the five percent threshold. Babiš was also attributed remarks about the Pirates and Somalia, colonoscopies, and penguins that do not fly. According to the text, Karel Havlíček was supposed to prepare an eighteen-page analysis of penguin walking. #volby #politika #ANO (translated)

ČT24 reported that the Prague leader of STAN, Petr Hlaváček, announced plans to negotiate a coalition at the magistrate with Spolu, Praha sobě, and the Pirates. At a press conference in the election headquarters, he stated that he would meet with the leader of Spolu, Tomáš Portlík from ODS, on Sunday or Monday. He ruled out collaboration with ANO. After counting more than 70 percent of the votes, STAN was leading in Prague. #Praha #STAN #volby (translated)

Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement gained decent profits in the municipal elections across the Czech Republic, however in Prague, where they expected greater success, they finished with a very weak result and will not succeed in participating in the next city council coalition. #AndrejBabiš #KomunálníVolby #ANO (translated)

Jeffrey Chiquini stated that the reform of the Judiciary should eliminate political appointments to the higher courts. He said that a Judiciary made up of politicians in robes would not be independent and advocated for judicial independence as a condition for impartiality. Chiquini declared that, in the first week of the legislature, he would call public hearings to start discussions and present proposals for the reform of the justice system. According to him, entities from the sector, state and national associations of the judiciary, associations of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Bar Association, and the Public Defender's Office would be invited. He also advocated for the appreciation of career judges, which he described as a right and a guarantee of society, and said that he would seek to restore legal security. #ReformaJudiciária #Justiça #IndependênciaJudiciária (translated)

Sigfrido Ranucci stated that he respects and calmly accepts the judge's ruling, emphasizing the importance of the judiciary's independence and highlighting that decisions made should not be influenced by media uproar. #IndipendenzaMagistratura #SigfridoRanucci #Giustizia (translated)

Carmelo Schininà wrote that the saliva test on the spoon used by Chiara Poggi for breakfast had returned positive, while the traces from the Ris of that time associated with that DNA were, according to him, one flat and the other unreadable. He reported that, according to the magistrates, there could have been a laboratory error, with a mix-up between the test tubes of the spoon and those of the pedals, and that for this reason the traces from the spoon would be without DNA. Schininà specified that the hypothesis still had to be proven, but argued that proving the error could compromise a fundamental part of the Ris investigations. He also criticized the lack of communication regarding the negative traces related to the spoon. #garlasco #ignotox #tgla7 #garlasco #giustizia #rispetto (translated)

The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, reaffirms in the statement "once again his support for judges, law enforcement, staff of the National Education, elected officials who are victims of violence or threats in the performance of their duties, as well as the injured high school students." #ColèreLycéenne #GardeÀVue #Justice (translated)

It is therefore only a matter of time before the first cases of rides costing tens of thousands of crowns appear. Well, and of course no one warned the residents of Prague or the tourists that the Prague city hall quietly deprived them of the protection of price ceilings, "It is therefore only a matter of time before the first cases of rides costing tens of thousands of crowns appear. Well, and of course no one warned the residents of Prague or the tourists that the Prague city hall quietly deprived them of the protection of price ceilings," said Tomáš Prouza, president of the Czech Union of Trade and Tourism, on X, adding that "the taxi mafia in Prague is celebrating and thanking the city hall." #Praha #taxi #cenováregulace (translated)

Bojan Požar wrote that Zoran Janković will have to appoint a woman as deputy mayor as part of the coalition agreement, regardless of whether he wants to. He added that the salary may not be particularly high, but the position should come with privileges such as an office at the City Hall, a car, and paid lunches at the Cubo restaurant. #Janković #podžupan #slovenskipolitik (translated)