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The essence is that we have won again, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and leader of the ANO movement nonetheless stated at the Saturday press conference that ANO is the strongest political force in the country at all levels except the Senate. #Volby2026 #HnutíANO #KomunálníVolby (translated)

Commentator Martin Čaban points out that the ANO movement, despite its political strength, is losing key positions in the elections, and the failure in the senatorial elections shows the need for stronger candidates and collaboration. #Volby2026 #HnutíANO #KomunálníVolby (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)

US Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, is facing increasing pressure due to allegations of corruption and a request to a donor to pay her credit card bill, as both Republican and Democratic senators call for an investigation. #KimberlyGuilfoyle #Bestechlichkeit #USBotschafterin (translated)

"We don't want windmills. (...) Show me a country with green energy, and I will show you a bankrupt country. You know, Germany tried it. They were about two days away from extinction." President Donald Trump claimed at a campaign event that the energy transition had brought Germany to the brink of disaster. "I will impose a 250 percent tariff on your damn wine and all the crap you send us. I will impose a 250 percent tariff on your wine, your champagne, and everything you send us, Emmanuel." At the same time, he threatened him, according to his own account in a phone call, with additional tariffs of 250 percent if French pharmaceutical companies did not offer their medications in the United States at lower prices. "I call him Muhammad. Someone said his name is not Muhammad, but Abdul. (...) I am the president. I can call him whatever the hell I want. To me, he is Muhammad. And he is a radical jihadist." Furthermore, Trump made derogatory remarks about the Muslim politician Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Senate for the Democrats. #Trump #Russland #Energiepolitik (translated)

American senators from both parties have determined that Donald Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel fuel into the U.S. violates the 2022 law prohibiting the import of Russian energy resources, despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believing that the administration is acting within the law. #Trump #Putin #Rosja (translated)

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin defended the Pentagon's plan to live-stream the execution of former soldier Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, which has sparked fierce criticism among politicians, including Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. #SAD #pogubljenje #NidalHasan (translated)

Paula published a short video that she claimed suggested how the government MPs Denis Doksanský and Petr Sadovský performed in the elections. She stated that both were from the ANO movement and from the Hradec Králové Region: Doksanský was running for the city council of Hradec Králové and Sadovský for the Senate in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. She labeled the ANO movement with a derogatory pun and added mocking hashtags to her post. #fuckano #muhehe https://t.co/OAUia6czU4 #volby #politika #Česko (translated)