Overview

• Interim official results with more than 80% counted show ANO at 36.5%, ahead of Spolu at 21.8% and STAN at 10.8%, leaving no party with a majority in the 200-seat lower house.
• Babiš prefers a single-party cabinet but will need partners such as Freedom and Direct Democracy or Motorists, and he also faces conflict-of-interest rules and a pending EU subsidy-fraud trial.
• President Petr Pavel will begin consultations with party leaders on Sunday and has said he may refuse to appoint ministers who push anti‑EU or anti‑NATO agendas.
• Babiš campaigned to halt Czech military aid to Ukraine and to end Prague’s ammunition‑procurement initiative, which the defence ministry’s AMOS unit defended as transparent.
• EU officials held an emergency meeting with TikTok over election manipulation concerns, after which the platform removed several bots.