Overview

• With nearly all votes counted, ANO leads on 34.9%, ahead of Spolu on 23% and STAN on 11.1%, with the Pirates at about 8.8%.
• Lacking an outright majority, Babiš is pursuing a single-party minority that could be tolerated by the Motorists party and Tomio Okamura’s SPD.
• President Petr Pavel is set to begin consultations on government formation on Sunday, with Babiš first to be received at the Prague Castle.
• Babiš pledged to halt Czech weapons deliveries to Ukraine, jeopardizing the national munitions initiative that has supplied roughly 3.5 million shells to Kyiv.
• This election introduced mail voting for citizens abroad and was marked by an electronic ID overload that officials attributed to unexpectedly high demand.