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Katja Kokot wrote that the right is financing the campaign with party funds and defends its positions with party members, while the Left is said to be using not only party money but also funds from non-governmental organizations, including millions from abroad, which she referred to as "Soros money." She added that the Left is also defending its positions with the support of non-governmental activists and public RTV. She asked whether this is still democracy or a competition of capital and power against common sense. She described the map of the referendum results on the amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiry as a representation of that common sense; according to her explanation, the dark blue areas voted against, while the light blue ones voted in favor. She also mentioned that at her home polling station and the surrounding ones, about 70 percent of votes were in favor of all four questions. In this context, she wondered where Slovenia is headed and whether power would belong to foreign capital, and wrote that the nation would write its own judgment. #demokracija #Slovenija #referendum (translated)

On Sunday, the district electoral commissions will count the ballots sent by mail from Slovenia, with informal results indicating that voters rejected the amendment to the law on parliamentary investigations and decided to abolish the RTV fee. #referendumi #volitve #Slovenija (translated)

After the recent referendum, voters rejected the amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiries and supported the conditionality of social assistance with community service and the restriction of voting rights for citizens of third countries, with official results to be announced on October 19th. #referendum #Slovenija #politika (translated)

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)

Katja Kokot noted that the amendment to the law on parliamentary investigations was passed in June, and non-governmental organizations then collected signatures and submitted them in September. She added that there followed 30 days of campaigning, during which the Constitutional Court made a decision in September that, in her view, changed the situation. She believed that the court essentially agreed with the purpose of the law, which was intended to prevent the halting of parliamentary investigations through appeals to the Constitutional Court. #parlament #zakonodaja #UstavnoSodišče (translated)

As of 4 PM on the referendum, 603,057 voters have cast their ballots, with discussions ongoing about the controversial amendment to the parliamentary investigation, which proposes more power to the commissions and less protection for those under investigation. #referendum #parlamentarnaPreiskava #varstvoPreiskovancev (translated)

Madelon Vos wrote that entrepreneurs, according to the CEO of DSM, needed a reliable government, but did not get one. She stated that Dutch politics trivialized the effects of the income tax in box 2 and the high rates in box 3, and that this policy severely affected entire sectors, including the Dutch crypto and precious metals sector with more than two million investors. Vos wrote that investors had to keep track of their real returns themselves, while some banks and brokers could not provide that data and the Tax Authority had not yet verified the calculations. According to her, investors would want to deduct inflation, transaction costs, currency costs, and subscription costs from that calculation. She also reported that the man who had been at the basis of the law had since advocated for the withdrawal of the amendment and the law and for a new piece of legislation. Furthermore, Vos pointed to the rising interest rates in France and the possible consequences of that for the Netherlands. She wondered if war was looming and wrote that the Netherlands was increasing pressure on Russia. https://t.co/X4T4ze43tV #ondernemen #beleggen #politiek (translated)

Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on social media that during the planning of the 2027 budget, they intend to increase the funding for public healthcare by 500 billion forints, while also sharply criticizing former government officials. #költségvetés #egészségügy #MagyarPéter (translated)

Voters are deciding today on four referendum questions, including an amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiries and advisory questions regarding the RTV contribution, the conditions for social assistance, and the voting rights of foreigners. #referendum #volitve #Slovenija (translated)

According to Thomas Byrne, the Irish minister of state for European affairs, the "balanced" proposal maintains the fundamental spending areas in line with EU treaties while significantly increasing investments in European competitiveness. #EU #költségvetés #írjavaslat (translated)

UpdateCharts stated that Leandra Leal said that Globo soap operas still followed the 6x1 schedule. According to the publication, she contrasted the network with the rest of the audiovisual sector and stated that all production companies already had agreements for the 5x2 schedule. https://t.co/AU3zpuqBG9 #Globo #Novela #Audiovisual (translated)

Péter Magyar wrote that in accordance with their commitments made before the elections, in the 2027 budget, they will increase the funding for public healthcare by 500 billion forints. The post, citing KSH data, also reported amounts of 3,883 billion forints for 2024, 1,462.9 billion forints for 2013, and 2,056.5 billion forints for 2019. https://t.co/HMm08BaXgn #egészségügy #költségvetés #választások #HU (translated)

Peter Magyar announced that in the 2027 budget, funding for public healthcare will be increased by 500 billion forints, and a government decree was also published in the Friday issue of the Hungarian Gazette regarding a one-time budget reallocation worth nearly 21.8 billion forints. #egészségügy #finanszírozás #költségvetés (translated)