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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)

The author stated that Tayzar San, Nan Lin, and Htet Myat Aung were among the young people who led a nonviolent civil resistance following the military coup in Myanmar in 2021 and sought a return to democracy and freedom. He expressed respect for them and the entire Myanmar group General Strike. https://t.co/2ht7ksEFFz #Myanmar #ObčanskýOdpor #Demokracie #MM (translated)

Vláďa Foltán wrote that Volodymyr Zelensky stated that if President Donald Trump truly wishes for elections in Ukraine, he should ask Vladimir Putin for a two-month, that is a 60-day complete ceasefire. According to Foltán, Zelensky said that Ukraine would then organize the elections and accept any decision of its citizens. https://t.co/HikfQJ94fa #Ukrajina #politika #příměří (translated)

The election result is very bad for the ODS, I might say a disaster. After the SPD and the ANO movement, it is the third worst result of these elections," commented the Civic Democrats' gain in the municipal and senatorial elections political scientist Michal Malý from Charles University. #ODS #komunálnívolby #politika (translated)

Walter Kraft stated that these were the first elections in which people who had been deprived of their legal capacity could also vote, and that their caregivers thus had at their disposal not only their own votes but also their votes. He described this as correct and ironically noted that decisions about others should be made by those who cannot decide for themselves. #volby #demokracie #karitativnípomoc (translated)

Kutil Onda said that Andrej Babiš tightly struggled with the fact that large cities did not sufficiently appreciate his government, and reminded them who decides on the state budget. He stated that state money is not Babiš's personal gift and that cities are not his subordinates that he could punish for disobedience. He expressed concern that there could be a change in the budgetary allocation of taxes and added that citizens can vote differently than the prime minister wishes. He linked this to his claim that Babiš hates democracy. #politika #demokracie #rozpočet (translated)

In the article, Pavel Tomášek summarizes five positive news from the recent municipal and senatorial elections, among which are high voter turnout and responsible voting by citizens, suggesting that people, despite the pessimistic atmosphere in society, are trying to influence politics. #komunalnivolby #senatnivolby #politika (translated)

The last scout™ reported that Jan Skalický, after the defeat in the senate elections in Děčín, disappointingly said that people do not want personalities, or are lazy to look for them. He urged the residents of the region to reflect on themselves and ironically asked whether it was not enough for them that Miloš Zeman and Felix Slováček came to personally support Skalický. https://t.co/OFni2m2QAp #volby #Děčín #politika (translated)

The author identified the main story of the elections as the decline of ANO and SPD in poorer regions and stated that according to the number of represented citizens, i.e., effective mandates, they suffered significant losses. He claims that the government parties are paying the price for having done almost nothing for regional development so far, nor having prepared a plan, and they are not helping the lower working class. He added that relying solely on pensions is not enough. https://t.co/59nN5hjHkK #volby #politika #regiony #CZ (translated)

The original agreement was that STAN would not deploy their candidate. It is completely clear that then General Řehka intervened, who first spoke about being a civic candidate, "The original agreement was that STAN would not deploy their candidate. It is completely clear that then General Řehka intervened, who first spoke about being a civic candidate," clarified the situation in Plzeň ODS chairman Martin Kupka, who believed in the success of both opposition candidates. #SenátníVolby #Opozice #ANO (translated)

The general and the deputy mayor in Plzeň took care of eliminating the current senator for ODS, Lumír Aschenbrenner, from the elections by urging citizens to choose their representatives while trying to reflect the needs and opinions of the local residents. #SenátníVolby2026 #Plzeň #Politika (translated)

"We are concerned that Russia intends to carry out sabotage in Europe. So why on earth do we allow them to enter Europe as tourists who can move around freely?" Article Finland is preparing to propose ending the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens at the upcoming European Union summit, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in an interview with the Yle television and radio station. #vízovápolitika #Rusko #Evropskáunie (translated)

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced that he will propose ending the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens at the upcoming EU summit due to concerns about sabotage that Russia is undertaking against the West, and that other Baltic and Nordic countries have already expressed support for this initiative. #vízovápolitika #Rusko #Evropskáunie (translated)

Some voters who registered last year on the special list for mail-in voting cannot vote in this year's Senate elections because they did not adequately inform themselves about the need to have their names removed from the list, which resulted in their votes not being counted. #volby #hlasování #občanskápráva (translated)