Updated 1:45 PM The chairman of the local organization YES in Slaný, Radek Vondráček, ruled out the possibility that his trade in votes would be organized by his movement.
Updated 1:25 PM The police in Prague checked the petitions of the Prague group themselves in front of the polling stations, and received several announcements because of this. Violeta Siřišťová, a spokeswoman for the Prague police, did not violate the electoral law by collecting signatures, CTK spokeswoman told ČTK today.
According to her, the police have not yet experienced any other difficulties in the elections in Prague. The leader of Prague, Jan Čižinská, wrote on Facebook that it was a matter of collecting signatures before the municipal elections. In order for one of the associations, which is part of the Prague coalition, to run again, it must collect 100,000 signatures.
Updated 1:15 PM Žaneta from the district of Prague-East came to the Czech Republic from Canada. He has been working overseas for two and a half years, and is in charge of projects at a foreign company. She said she considered the possibility to vote important and was not indifferent to the country’s fate.
Updated 11:55 Police are investigating a report of alleged vote trafficking in one of the hostels in Slany in the Kladno region. The case is still in its infancy and is being directed against an unknown perpetrator, said Vlasta Suchánková, a spokeswoman for the Central Bohemian police.
“We have received a notice concerning a possible suspicion of voting in one of the hostels in Slanom. In this case, we have launched a standard investigation under section 158 on suspicion of obstruction of the elections. The case is still in its infancy the offender, “ said the spokeswoman.
Updated 11:40 Many constituencies report high turnout, on Friday evening it exceeded 50 percent, the news server Novinky.cz notes. Four years ago, according to this source, the turnout on both days was 60.84 percent of eligible voters – but on Saturday, interest is lower. There is great interest in these elections abroad as well, notes Novinky.cz.
This year, for the first time, votes will be converted to seats under the new rules. The Imperiali quota is used instead of the d’Hondt method. Each party will receive as many seats in a given region as the quota will fit into the number of valid votes for that party. This will alleviate the advantage for the winner of the election, explain Novinky.cz, the online magazine of the daily Právo.
Updated 11:30 An employee of the town hall in the city district of Brno-Žabovřesky mistakenly coded the building with the election commission on Friday evening. City police guards intervened on the spot.
The alarm from the Žabovřesky town hall alarm was activated after half past nine in the evening. “Two patrols immediately went to the office and contacted the people inside, and the police officers from the operations center called the contact person at the same time,” said Ghanem.
According to him, it turned out that no one was trying to break into the building without authorization. “One of the employees of the town hall did not realize only when leaving work that elections were still taking place, and he coded the commission in the building,” added Ghanem. He added that the alarm was soon deactivated
Updated 11:10 Portal Romea.cz informs about possible suspicions of electoral corruption – specifically in Slanom. “Last week on Friday two people came to the hostel, a Roma and a man from the majority. They offered a thousand crowns (about 40 euros) for each vote and 50 thousand (about two thousand euros) to the hostel manager for arranging votes for the movement with the hostel residents. YES,” Nikola Taragoš, director of the Romodrom organization that manages the hostel, told the portal. “We reported it to the police,” said Taragos.
Updated 9:45 The President of the Oath, Róbert Šlachta, believes that his movement will exceed the 5% threshold for entering the Chamber in the elections. He told reporters today in Pohořelice in the Brno region, where he was to vote. According to Šlachta, the only success for the Oath is that since its founding in January it has gotten “off the street” into debates among the largest political parties.
Updated 8:30 112 patients voted at the University Hospital Brno on the first election day. Hospital spokeswoman Veronika Plachá said this. Others will vote today. Dozens of patients also voted at the University Hospital at St. Anne’s in Brno, about twenty voted in the Znojmo Hospital.
President Zeman recalled on Friday
Already on Friday, all the heads of parliamentary parties and the President of the Republic Miloš Zeman recalled. He voted for a wheelchair at the chateau in Lány from a wheelchair. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš reiterated that he was running for the last time, stressing that he considered this year’s elections to be the most important in the history of the Czech Republic.
Source: TASR / AP Photo / Petr David Josek
Record interest in voting from abroad
Turnout is estimated to have reached about 20 percent by Friday morning, a level similar to four years ago. On Friday, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs registered a record interest in voting abroad. More than 2,400 people applied for voting cards at embassies, which is half as many as in the January 2018 presidential election.
More than eight million eligible voters can vote in the Czech parliamentary elections. Currently, 22 entities are applying for 200 parliamentary seats – 20 political parties and two electoral coalitions.
The results will be known on Saturday evening
After the polls close on Saturday afternoon, the counting of votes will begin. The interim results will be published by the Czech Statistical Office (CSO) according to how they will be delivered by individual election commissions. Relevant results will not be known until Saturday late in the afternoon or evening.
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