Saturday

Chronicle of October 17, 2026

29 entries

• The Czech Statistical Office reported that one in eleven children born in the Czech Republic is a foreign national, and the number of such births has doubled over ten years.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS
  

• The police announced that they will return five million crowns to the Czech Sokol Organization; the money had been seized from a former employee who, according to the police, defrauded the organization of tens of millions. A decision on roughly three million more is still pending.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy

• The parties negotiating the Brno coalition (KDU-ČSL, STAN, ODS, TOP 09, the Greens, the Pirates, Fakt Brno TU! and Za Lužánky) have finished the programme part of the talks and are to discuss the distribution of portfolios next week; the ANO movement, with 11 seats, is likely to remain in opposition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Jihomoravský kraj
  

• From next year the Supreme Audit Office is to create 16 positions to guard its building, because the government has withdrawn its police protection this year; according to its spokeswoman the office has no money set aside for the new staff and will take it from operating expenses.

  Seznam Zprávy
  

• A cottage caught fire in Luky pod Medníkem and a person with severe burns was flown to a hospital in Vinohrady; firefighters provisionally put the damage at four million crowns and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

  Pražský deník · Blesk.cz · iROZHLAS

• A team of drone operators from the Information Technology Department of the City of Plzeň won an award in the Smart Municipality category of the national Municipal Project of the Year competition for Crash Inspector VR, an application that turns traffic accident sites into virtual reality.

  Plzeňská Drbna · Deník: Plzeňský kraj
  

• Minister Boris Šťastný said that the governing coalition is not preparing any changes to the composition of the cabinet.

  ČTK / České noviny
  

• The Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the vote of ANO Senate candidate Sandra Tsoukernik in the second round of the election in the Cheb district is valid, even though she put it into a yellow envelope.

  FORUM 24
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, preliminary results put Karel Řehka in Plzeň, Miroslav Plevný in the Cheb district and David Smoljak in Praha 9, all for STAN, in the lead.

  Lidovky.cz
  

• The Regional Court in Brno sentenced two drivers to seven and four years in prison for a July 2023 chase of BMW cars in which a motorcyclist was hit; the verdict is not yet final.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Novinky.cz
  

• The Mayors and Independents movement won the Senate elections after six years: of its fourteen candidates, ten were elected, two of them already in the first round.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČT24
  

• The mayor of Pelhřimov, Ladislav Med (ODS), won the second round of the Senate election in the Pelhřimov district with 61.84 percent of the vote, ahead of the mayor of Jindřichův Hradec, Michal Kozár (ANO).

  Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy · Novinky.cz
  

• The Governor of the Liberec Region, Martin Půta (Mayors for the Liberec Region), won the second round of the Senate election in the Česká Lípa district with 55.75 percent of the vote, ahead of MP Jitka Volfová (ANO); according to his earlier statement, he will give up the post of governor.

  Liberecká Drbna · Deník: Liberecký kraj
  

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called the result of the ANO movement in the second round of the Senate elections, in which it won no seat, catastrophic and announced that the movement's leadership would assess the work of its regional organisations.

  ČTK / České noviny · Lidovky.cz
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, ODS candidates won in seven districts; party leader Martin Kupka called the result a success and said that the ANO movement has no representative in the Senate.

  iDNES.cz · Deník.cz
  

• Jiří Padevět won the second round of the Senate election in the Prague 1 district and will replace the incumbent senator Němcová in the Senate of the Czech Republic.

  ČTK / České noviny

• In the second round of the Senate elections on 16 and 17 October 2026, ten STAN candidates, seven ODS candidates and no ANO candidate were elected.

  ČT24: regiony · ČTK / České noviny
  

• In Žďár nad Sázavou, Josef Klement (KDU-ČSL) defended his Senate seat, defeating Michal Šmarda in the second round by 54 to 46 percent of the vote.

  Echo24
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, Mayors and Independents together with Mayors for the Liberec Region won ten of the 22 contested seats and the ODS won seven, while none of the ANO movement's thirteen finalists succeeded.

  Echo24
  

• On 17 October 2026 an unknown man armed with a knife threatened to kill a family with a crying child on a line 22 tram in Prague between the Malostranská and Lesser Town Square stops; police are searching for him as a suspect in extortion.

  Pražský deník · Pražská Drbna
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, incumbent senator Ivo Trešl (STAN) defended his seat in the Louny constituency.

  ČT24: regiony
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, Marek Ošťádal (24/7) defended his seat in the Litovel constituency with 65.27 percent of the vote.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník: Olomoucký kraj
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, Petr Kazík (OK), director of the Silesian Theatre in Opava, won the Karviná constituency.

  ČTK / České noviny · Deník N
  

• In the second round of the Senate elections, Petr Korč (NMFM) defeated incumbent senator Helena Pešatová (STAN) in the Frýdek-Místek constituency.

  ČTK / České noviny
  

• In Poruba, Ostrava, in the Moravian-Silesian Region, another monthly Catholic Mass in English was held on 17 October 2026; the parish introduced these Masses together with the Diocese of Ostrava-Opava for foreign students and workers, and the first was held on 19 September.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · iDNES.cz: Ostrava
  

• Health officials in the South Bohemian Region have recorded 924 confirmed cases of Lyme disease and 80 cases of tick-borne encephalitis so far this year.

  Budějcká Drbna
  

• The agency Median published a survey according to which the ANO movement would have won a Chamber of Deputies election in September, with its support at the lowest level since May.

  iROZHLAS · ČTK / České noviny
  

• Nearly two thousand people have signed a petition against a planned cross-country skiing area near Rejvíz in the Jeseníky, objecting to artificial snowmaking in a protected landscape.

  iROZHLAS · Hanácká Drbna
  

• In Sokolov, representatives of three groupings signed a coalition agreement under which Jan Picka is to become mayor; the coalition will hold 17 of 27 seats on the council, and the winning ANO will be in opposition.

  ČTK / České noviny · Karlovarská Drbna · ČRo Karlovy Vary
  

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