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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)

However, the price reduction is aided by Trump's announcement at the beginning of last week that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the midterm elections in November, referring to what he described as "productive talks with Tehran." #Ekonomika #Dīzeļdegviela #Vēlēšanas (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)

Pablo Guillen judged Antoine Dupont's start to the season remarkable and estimated that his complete preparation had done him good. He praised his high-level performances and the diversity of his play during his evening match, adding that he would return to the French XV in November. #Rugby #AntoineDupont #XVdeFrance (translated)

Anežka Nedomová stated that the Pardubice representative club STAN agreed in the evening to end the cooperation agreement with ANO and Žijeme Pardubice, as well as the contract for the joint program. According to her, STAN is now negotiating a new coalition and believes that it will find a better solution for Pardubice. #Pardubice #koalice #politika (translated)

Andrej Fiskovec wrote that Yandex services were designed to function even during the outage of one data center, but Ukrainian drones hit three centers over four days, according to him. He stated that today, as a result, taxi services, payments, and websites of foreign companies stopped operating, including outside of Russia. In a new article, he discussed why the outage occurred only after the third strike, the reaction of Volodymyr Zelensky, and what he believes Putin's decree regarding unprotected businesses will determine. He added that the article was not behind a paywall. https://t.co/wHlKnjBoxI #Yandex #Ukrajina #drony (translated)

Wolf wrote that shortly before the elections, increasingly positive news began to emerge. As an example, he mentioned a supposed energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine had confirmed that it was unaware of any such thing but was willing to cooperate, he wrote. He criticized this approach and asked whether a positive atmosphere was being deliberately created just before November 3, only to be reversed afterward. He also wondered whether people were truly so easily influenced and believed everything. #Wahlen2023 #Energiekrise #UkraineRustland (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)

In the post-election debate, the future of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the exhaustion of the Pirate Party, and the perception of Motorists as new political upstarts were discussed, with moderator Pavel Štrunc emphasizing that the post-election struggle for power is just beginning. #volby2026 #AndrejBabiš #Českápolitika (translated)