2018 Czech Senate election
Senate elections were held in the Czech Republic on 5 and 6 October 2018 alongside municipal elections, with a second round held on 12 and 13 October 2018. The Conservative Civic Democratic Party (ODS) won the election with 10 seats. Governing parties ANO 2011 and the Czech Social Democratic Party were heavily defeated, winning only 1 seat each. The Communist Party lost its last seat in the Senate when Václav Homolka failed to be re-elected, meaning the party would be without representation in the Senate for the first time in the history of Czech Republic. The election was considered the first major win for the opposition to Andrej Babiš' Cabinet. Commentators including Josef Kopecký also noted ODS confirmed their position as the main opposition party, ahead of the Czech Pirate Party.
Image: Petr Fiala 2019 Praha
Image: Praha, Národní třída, 17 listopadu 2017, Petr Gazdík (cropped)
Image: Belobradek (cropped)
Image: A Babiš Praha 2015
Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic)
The Civic Democratic Party is a conservative and Eurosceptic political party in the Czech Republic. The party generally sits centre-right to right-wing on the political spectrum, and holds 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and is the second strongest party by number of seats following the 2021 election. It is the only political party in the Czech Republic that has maintained an uninterrupted representation in the Chamber of Deputies.
Leader of the Civic Democrats from 2002 until 2010, Mirek Topolánek led the party to an election victory in 2006 and became the party's first prime minister since 1997.
ODS chairman Announces Government Resignation
Current party leader Petr Fiala
Departed chairman of the Senate (in years 2018–2020) Jaroslav Kubera of the ODS