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On 10 October 2026 at about 08:00, a police car broke through the railing of Hlávkův most in Prague and fell into the Vltava; paramedics treated three people suffering from hypothermia, with no injuries.
The town of Mladá Boleslav signed a contract with the company Stavotrans to rebuild the area in front of the railway station for CZK 24.86 million excluding VAT; the work is to last six months after the new station building is completed in November 2026.
One person was injured on 10 October 2026 in a fire at a house with a barn in Lubník in the Ústí nad Orlicí area; explosions of bottles and tyres complicated the firefighters' work.
Police are looking into a suspicion of vote buying ahead of the municipal elections in Český Těšín in the Karviná area; according to iROZHLAS, the suspicion concerns an offer of CZK 500 per vote.
Two-day municipal elections and the first round of Senate elections in 27 districts ended in Czechia; polling stations closed at 14:00 and the counting of votes began.
In Pilsen, an unknown cyclist attacked a woman who was jogging and stabbed her in the back with a knife; paramedics treated her and took her to a medical facility, and police are searching for the attacker.
The Motoristé movement did not admit some media outlets to its election headquarters; according to Petr Macinka, the reason was limited capacity.
According to a STEM survey for CNN Prima News, ANO would lead an October Chamber of Deputies election with 31.3 percent, ahead of STAN (16.6) and ODS (11.3); Motoristé sobě, at 4.6 percent, would not enter the Chamber.
In the municipality of Černouček near Litoměřice, Motoristé sobě won its first local councillor in the municipal elections; the Černouček 2026 association took four of the seven seats and turnout was 79.71 percent.
According to interim results, Senator Jan Grulich (TOP 09) defended his seat in the Rychnov region in the Senate elections, leading Petr Sadovský of ANO by roughly 61 to 39 percent with about half of the precincts counted.
In Senate district no. 12 (Strakonice area), with more than three quarters of polling districts counted, incumbent senator Tomáš Fiala (Naše Česko) had over 58 percent of the vote, Miroslav Ušatý (Svobodní) just under 23 percent and Jana Hrdinová (KDU-ČSL) just under 20 percent.
In the Česká Lípa Senate district, according to ČTK calculations with more than 80 percent of polling districts counted, Jitka Volfová (ANO) with 35.14 percent and Liberec Region governor Martin Půta (SLK) with 32.73 percent advance to the second round; incumbent senator Jiří Vosecký (independent) did not defend his seat.
Jan Sobotka defended his seat in the first round of the Senate election in the Trutnov district, where four candidates ran.
In the municipal elections, with about half of polling districts counted, KDU-ČSL led among separately running parties by number of seats with 1,125 councillors, followed by Starostové a nezávislí (612), ODS (192) and ANO (107); turnout was 48.5 percent.
In the municipal elections in Olomouc, according to interim results, the ANO movement led ahead of STAN, which gained ground; Mayor Miroslava Ferancová (ANO) said the movement had wanted to defend its number of seats and that post-election talks would be difficult.
In the municipal elections in Prague, after about 15 percent of votes had been counted, the STAN movement narrowly led ahead of the Spolu pro Prahu coalition and the Praha sobě group; the count was proceeding slowly.
In the municipal elections in Hradec Králové, after three quarters of polling districts had been counted, the coalition of the Hradec Democratic Club and TOP 09 led with 11 seats in the 37-member council, with the ANO movement one seat behind.
According to projections, South Moravian Governor and KDU-ČSL leader Jan Grolich won the first round of the Senate election in the Vyškov area with almost 61 percent of the vote, while the ANO candidate received around 31 percent.
In Rozvadov in the Tachov area, with a turnout of 81 percent, the association of independent candidates of Mayor Martin Ábel won decisively with 79 percent of the vote; the list of employees of the local casino came third with seven percent.
In the municipal elections in Teplice, the ODS won with 30.09 percent of the vote and 10 seats, ahead of the ANO movement with 28.28 percent and 9 seats; turnout was 31.92 percent.
In the municipal elections in Frýdek-Místek, with more than 80 percent of votes counted, the Naše Město F-M movement led with 41.4 percent, with ANO second on 16.8 percent.
In the Příbram Senate district, according to ČTK projections, incumbent senator Petr Štěpánek (STAN) advanced to the second round with 44.21 percent of the vote; his opponent will be Barbora Daňhová (ANO) with 26.15 percent.
In the Louny Senate district the second round will decide; incumbent senator Ivo Trešl, who led according to iDNES.cz, expects the support of two unsuccessful candidates, Leo Steiner (JsmePRO!) and Ivana Hluštíková (Greens and Pirates), in the second round.
In the municipal elections in Vsetín, the VS21 movement won with more than 40 percent of the vote; the list led by long-serving mayor Jiří Čunek came second with about 16 percent, and Čunek said he would not seek a post in the town's leadership.
In the Senate district of Karviná, Brzyszkowská (ANO) and Kazík (OK) advanced to the second round; voter turnout stayed below 30 percent.
In the Senate district of Pelhřimov, according to Czech News Agency projections, Ladislav Med (ODS) with 30.93 percent and Michal Kozár (ANO) with 27.22 percent of the vote advanced to the second round; incumbent senator Jaroslav Chalupský (Srdcem a rozumem) did not defend his seat.
In the Senate district of Kladno, incumbent senator Adéla Sucharda Šípová (Pirates) and Paták (ODS) will face each other in the second round.
Pirate Party chairman Zdeněk Hřib praised the party's interim results in the municipal elections in Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Karlovy Vary and Kladno at a press conference, and expects a result above ten percent in Prague.
Tomio Okamura (SPD) said after the first round of the Senate elections and the municipal elections that the movement's results confirmed its nationwide polling numbers.
Motorists chairman Petr Macinka called the movement's interim result in the Prague municipal elections weak, with just under three percent after two fifths of the votes were counted; he sees success in Ostrava, where it had over eight percent after five sixths were counted.
After the municipal elections and the first round of the Senate elections, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said that the ANO movement is the strongest political force in the country at all levels except the Senate and that the governing coalition with the SPD and the Motorists will last until the regular elections in 2029.
In the municipal elections in České Budějovice, the Naše Česko movement of regional governor Martin Kuba won with more than 29 percent of the vote, ahead of ANO with more than 16 percent; Mayor Dagmar Škodová Parmová said she could also negotiate with the ODS.
In the second round of the Senate elections, the incumbent Josef Bazala (KDU-ČSL) will face Jiří Vašica (for ANO) in the Uherské Hradiště district, and the incumbent Tomáš Třetina (TOP 09) will face Jiří Kyněra (for ANO) in the Znojmo district.
At a press conference at the ANO movement's election headquarters, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) called the agreement between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on diesel deliveries a "big slap for Europe".
In the elections to the Prague city assembly, the Praha sobě movement held third place with 17 percent after about 60 percent of the votes had been counted.
After the municipal elections in Brno, which iDNES reports were won by KDU-ČSL, the Christian Democrats are to hold coalition talks with ODS, the Pirates, the Greens and the Za Lužánky group.
In a referendum held alongside the municipal elections, residents of Bystrá nad Jizerou in the Semily area rejected support for wind turbines, while the referendum on a photovoltaic power plant in Ralsko was invalid because of low turnout.
The first municipal election results were delivered by the commission in Miskovice in the Kutná Hora area at 14:28 on 10 October 2026, while the Czech Statistical Office received the data from the last polling district in Prague 5 at 7:01 on 11 October.
In a binding referendum held alongside the municipal elections in Hrádek in the Hradec Králové area, 52 voters supported the free transfer of the Church of St George from church property to the municipality and 43 voted against, with a turnout of 64.5 percent.
In referendums held alongside the municipal elections, residents of Žihle, Kožlany, Kralovice and Měčín in the Plzeň Region rejected the construction of wind power plants in their municipalities.
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