Pirates and Prague will negotiate together, in Most there is a coalition of ProMOST and ANO
Update: 20/10/2022 19:01
Issued by: 20/10/2022, 18:58
Prague – The Prague Pirates and Prague have signed an Alliance for stability and will proceed exclusively together in the post-election negotiations. On the other hand, the negotiations have already ended in Most, the coalition was signed there by the winning ProMOST movement with the other ANO. In several other statutory cities, representatives met today for the first time after the elections and elected new leaders. Two mayors from the ANO movement continue in their functions, Tomáš Navrátil in Opava and Jiří Korec in Zlín.
In the capital, Pirates and Praha Sobá want to speed up the negotiations for a new coalition through a joint procedure. They have a total of 24 votes in the 65-member city council. The coalition Spolu (ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL) won the elections in Prague ahead of the second ANO. According to ANO leader Patrik Nacher, the formation of an alliance will, on the contrary, hinder negotiations.
In Most, the new coalition in the council of 45 members will have a majority of 31 votes. He will propose Jan Paparega (ProMOST) as mayor, who was the leader of the city in the last two election periods and this year the people elected him senator. The council will have nine members. Three will be from ANO.
They still do not know the future shape of the city leadership in Jihlava. Today, the representatives of the ODS and People’s Party candidates want to enter a coalition with the ANO movement, but on the condition that the indicted Jana Nagyová (ANO), who was elected as a representative of Jihlava in the municipal elections, will not be in it. The ANO movement should publish a response to this request on Friday.
Mayor Zlína Korec received the votes of 31 of the 38 representatives present today. She had no opponent. For the next four years, the city was led by the winning coalition of the ANO, ODS, People’s Party and Pirates. Navrátila was supported in Opava by 23 out of 39 deputies. The municipality will be governed by a coalition of the ANO movement and the Citizens of Opava Municipal Districts (OMČO) and Zelená pro Opava groups.
Constituent assemblies were also held in smaller towns. Miroslav Adámek, the leader of the victorious ANO movement, was elected mayor of Šumperk. In Písek, representatives elected Michal Čapek (ANO) as leader. Jan Vrba (ANO) became the mayor of Cheb, the second largest city in the Karlovy Vary region. The new mayor of Kroměříž, Tomáš Opatrný, is also from the same movement.
ANO has mayors in other cities as of today. There is Alexandr Nogrády in Český Krumlov, Radek Löwy in Litoměřice and Martin Hurajčík in Mariánské Lázně. Milan Slavík (ODS) became the mayor of Nové Město nad Metují with a population of 9,000, Třebíč will be led by Pavel Pacal from the Pro Třebíč group, and Zdeňka Blišťanová (Jeseník at heart) will be the mayor of Jeseník. Pavel Svoboda (for ODS and independent) will remain in Dobříš.
The mayor’s election will be repeated in three weeks in Jilemnice in Semilsko. Neither of the two candidates was successful in the constituent assembly. By law, the members of the city council elected for the 2018 to 2022 electoral period remain in their positions. According to the available information, this is the only one of the 39 cities in the Liberec region where the election of the mayor at the constituent assembly was unsuccessful.
In Přelouč, the constitutive meeting of the council has not yet taken place, but today a coalition was formed there consisting of the winning association Coalition of Citizens of Přelouč and four other entities. It has 15 mandates in the council with 21 members. The current mayor Irena Burešová (ODS) is ending her post. She led the city for six electoral terms, she said, she did not want to continue. Martin Šmíd from the Coalition of Citizens of Přelouč, which won the elections in September, is to become mayor.
According to the Act on Municipalities, the constitutive meeting of the council must take place no later than October 24. The exception is municipalities where the courts are still dealing with election complaints. The complainants have not yet been successful. For example, the Regional Court in Hradec Králové has so far definitively rejected or rejected seven lawsuits for municipal elections out of 12 registered complaints. Even in the Liberec region, none of the seven complaints filed were successful.