Czech opposition party wins most seats in election for third of Senate

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The main Czech absorption radical led by erstwhile populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis won an predetermination Saturday for a 3rd of the seats successful Parliament's precocious house, the Senate.

The ruling conjugation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala inactive retained a bulk successful the Senate.

With each the votes from the two-day ballot counted, Babis' ANO, oregon YES successful English, won 8 of the 27 seats up for grabs successful the 81-seat Senate successful the two-round election.

It's the archetypal clip the centrist question won that galore seats successful the chamber. The results are a boost for Babis up of adjacent year's parliamentary elections. ANO has been the astir fashionable enactment and is favored to triumph that vote.

The candidates linked to the conjugation won 15 seats.

Parliament's little location dominates the legislative process, but the Senate plays an important relation successful passing law amendments and approving Constitutional Court judges.

In a abstracted ballot past week, ANO dominated Czech determination elections, winning 10 of the 13 regions contested.

The existent Czech authorities firmly stands down Ukraine aft it was invaded by Russia. The state has donated arms, including dense weapons, to the Ukrainian equipped forces and is down a program to get artillery shells Ukraine severely needs from countries extracurricular the European Union. Some 320,000 refugees from Ukraine presently unrecorded successful Czechia.