Former Social Democrat Prime Minister Milos Zeman narrowly held off a strong challenge from independent centrist Jiri Drahos to retain the Czech Republic’s Presidency in today’s run-off round. Zeman won his second term by just under three percentage points and by only 152,000 votes out of nearly 5.57 million cast – some 51.4 per cent […]
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Election result: Czech Presidency 2018, 1st round
Incumbent Milos Zeman won the first round of the Czech Presidential election today as predicted, but failed to reach the 50 per cent score required to avoid a run-off. With 38.6 per cent of the vote, the veteran Social Democrat advanced considerably on his 2013 first round score of 24.2 per cent, and was placed […]
Final polling for the Czech Parliamentary election
Voters in the Czech Republic go to the polls tomorrow (Friday 20th) and Saturday to elect a new Chamber of Deputies, with the ANO (‘Yes’) movement of Andrej Babis continuing to hold a commanding lead in the final polling. ANO has clearly emerged the better from this summer’s coalition crisis than their partners in government […]
ANO at new 2017 high as Social Democrats slump
If last month’s CVVM poll gave some hope to Prague’s ruling CSSD with a small rise in fortunes, April’s edition has quickly smashed it again – the Prime Minister’s party slumps by six points in voting intentions to 16 per cent, its worst score of 2017 with CVVM. For coalition partner and main rival in […]
Czech Social Democrats pull back ground, but still face huge task
This month’s CVVM poll, published today, is the best of 2017 for the Czech Republic’s largest parliamentary party. The CSSD (Social Democrats) of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka move up to 22 per cent, an advance of 2 points on CVVM’s February survey and well ahead of results from some of the country’s six other polling […]