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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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People protest Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoglu detention - Istanbul

People protest against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrestation, in front of the Istanbul Police Department, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, several other mayors, artists, and politicians from the Republican People's Party (CHP) were among more than 100 people detained as part of two separate investigations into the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. As Imamoglu was being taken to the Police Department on Vatan Street in Istanbul, authorities closed the street to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Istanbul, Turkey, on March 19, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2023 Mayors Exchange Conference on Maritime Silk Road City Influence closes in China's Wenzhou

STORY: 2023 Mayors Exchange Conference on Maritime Silk Road City Influence closes in China's Wenzhou SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 24, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 25, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:14 LOCATION: WENZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the conference 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): NICOLA CASARINI, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AUGUSTO SOTO, Professor, Esade Ramon Llull University STORYLINE: The 2023 Mayors Exchange Conference on Maritime Silk Road City Influence wrapped up Saturday in east China's Wenzhou City, an important node along the ancient Maritime Silk Road. The two-day conference explored the history of the Maritime Silk Road and promoted the Silk Road spirit through city and people exchanges, advancing the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). SOUNDBITE 1 (English): NICOLA CASARINI, Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali "Italy like China is an ancient civilization. And if we go back in time during the Song (960-1279) and

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Bulgarians vote for local authorities

STORY: Bulgarians vote for local authorities DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:59 LOCATION: Sofia CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of polling stations 2. various of voters STORYLINE: Bulgarians went to polls on Sunday to elect mayors and municipal councilors. As many as 12,299 polling stations opened across the country at 7:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) for over six million eligible voters to cast their ballots. The elections are held every four years. In this year's elections, almost 39,000 candidates are competing for the posts of mayors of the 265 municipalities and 3,041 mayoralties in Bulgaria, and the 35 quarters in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, as well as 5,053 seats in the municipal councils. A candidate for mayor must gain more than half of the valid votes to win the position in the first round. If no one gains more than 50 percent of votes in the first round, the top two runners will compete in a run-off on Nov. 5. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sofia. (XHTV

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors meet Japan PM Kishida

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R), Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pose for photo as they hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2023. The mayors of the two cities that suffered U.S. atomic bombings in 1945 asked Kishida to set up occasions for world leaders attending the upcoming summit of the Group of Seven nations in Hiroshima to visit A-bomb memorial museums in the cities or to talk with the victims on the sidelines of the summit.

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TEPCO, Fukushima ink safety pact on reactor decommissioning

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose (front L) talks with Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori (2nd from R) and the mayors of two towns hosting TEPCO's nuclear power plant on Jan. 7, 2015, in Fukushima city, northeastern Japan, after concluding a new safety agreement incorporating provisions on plant decommissioning.

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U.S. Midwestern cities seek investment, trade with China

STORY: U.S. Midwestern cities seek investment, trade with China DATELINE: Dec. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:17 LOCATION: CHICAGO, U.S. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chicago 2. various of China 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROD ROBERSON, Mayor of Elkhart in Indiana 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KATIE ROSENBERG, Mayor of Wausau City in Wisconsin 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JAMES HOVLAND, Mayor of Edina in Minnesota 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): JAMAEL TITO BROWN, Mayor of Youngstown in Ohio STORYLINE: The 6th China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) - Chicago Annual Gala was held in Chicago. Mayors of U.S. Midwestern cities attending the event hope for seeking more trade and cooperation opportunities with China. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROD ROBERSON, Mayor of Elkhart in Indiana "We know that there is Chinese investment on the two coasts, whether it's the west or east coast. We also know that there's Chinese investment right here in Chicago. And so to me, that investment should also trickle into Elkhart as well. But

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Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura

OSAKA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura answers questions from reporters in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is pictured in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives.

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Antinuclear conference in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeki Nishihara (R), mayor of Makinohara, a Shizuoka Prefecture city, speaks during a session of mayors of Japanese municipalities at the Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 15, 2012. The two-day conference ended the same day after adopting the Yokohama Declaration.

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (L) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Akiba received the award together with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II.

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Nagasaki mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (R) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Taue received the award together with former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II.

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New Hiroshima mayor visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) hold a press conference in the Nagasaki city office on May 10, 2011. Matsui visited Nagasaki in southwestern Japan for the first time since being elected mayor of the western Japan city in April. The mayors of the two atomic-bombed cities agreed during their talks to deepen cooperation in efforts to realize a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Regional elections across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto casts his ballot in the election on April 10, 2011, to choose members of the Osaka prefectural assembly at a polling station in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The first of two unified rounds of regional polls slated for April were held the same day to pick governors of 12 of Japan's 47 prefectures, mayors of four cities and assembly members of 41 prefectures and 15 of the country's major cities. (Pool photo)

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - Voters line up to cast their ballots in a local election at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years.

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman casts her ballot in a local election at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years.

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - Seoul Mayor Oh Se Hoon, running for reelection for the ruling Grand National Party, and his wife Song Hyun Ok cast their ballots at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki declare 2020 Olympics bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue speak during a press conference at the Hiroshima city government office on Oct. 11, 2009. The mayors of Japan's two atomic-bombed cities expressed their desire to jointly host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Japanese, Russian mayors call for enhanced economic ties

HAKODATE, Japan - Niigata Mayor and Japanese delegation head Akira Shinoda (R) shakes hands with Khabarovsk Mayor Aleksander Sokolov after signing a joint statement adopted at the end of a two-day ''coastal city'' meeting in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Aug. 20. Mayors of 18 Japanese cities, mostly on the Sea of Japan coast, and 10 Russian Far Eastern cities took part in the meeting.

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Niigata gov. scraps TEPCO pluthermal project plan

NIIGATA, Japan - Niigata Gov. Ikuo Hirayama (R) is in talks with two local mayors at his office in Niigata on Sept. 12. Hirayama said later he has scrapped a plan for a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) pluthermal power-generation project in the prefecture over a scandal in which the company covered up damage at its nuclear plants.

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Tokyo gov. proposes environment taxes for local gov'ts

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara attends a meeting in Yokohama on Nov. 8 of four governors and three mayors from the Tokyo metropolitan area. Ishihara proposed that Tokyo and other neighboring governments jointly introduce two new taxes aimed at protecting the environment.

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Tokyo gov. proposes environment taxes for local gov'ts

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara attends a meeting in Yokohama on Nov. 8 of four governors and three mayors from the Tokyo metropolitan area. Ishihara proposed that Tokyo and other neighboring governments jointly introduce two new taxes aimed at protecting the environment.

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A-bombed cities' mayors call for nuke ban treaty, warn of war risks

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) makes a speech, alongside Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue, at a U.N. conference in New York on May 1, 2015. The mayors of the two Japanese cities that were devastated by wartime atomic bombings urged participating countries to pursue a nuclear-free world through such means as a nuclear weapons ban treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Voting begins in key local elections across Japan

People cast votes at a polling station in the city of Osaka on April 12, 2015, as the first of two rounds of unified quadrennial local elections to choose governors, mayors and local assembly members is held across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge gov't to back paper on nuclear weapons ban

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R) and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (C) hand a petition to Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the ministry in Tokyo on March 23, 2015. The mayors of the two Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombings in 1945 urged the central government to support an Austrian document circulated among U.N. members that calls for a ban on nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akita chosen as rotating host city for 2015 Tohoku festival

The mayors of the capital cities of six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku announce at a press conference in Akita on Jan. 20, 2015, that the annual Tohoku Rokkon Festival featuring six major festivals in the region will be held in the city on May 30 and 31. They expect about 225,000 visitors to the two-day event, which was launched in 2011 to help promote reconstruction following the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Joint forum of Japan, S. Korea local governments

Japanese and South Korean local government leaders including governors and mayors discuss the aging of society, a common issue for the two countries, at a joint forum held in Sejong, South Korea, on Oct. 31, 2015, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the Japan-South Korea relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima mayor reads out appeal at Mayors for Peace meeting in N.Y.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui reads out a "Hiroshima-Nagasaki Appeal" at a meeting sponsored by Mayors for Peace, a global nongovernmental organization aiming to realize a nuclear-free world, in New York on April 27, 2015. The appeal called on the ongoing NPT Review conference to include in its final document a plea for world leaders to visit the two Japanese atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki Univ. students give presentation at N.Y. peace meeting

Two Nagasaki University students give a presentation on peace activities in New York on April 27, 2015, at a meeting sponsored by Mayors for Peace, a global nongovernmental organization aiming to realize a nuclear-free world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - Voters line up to cast their ballots in a local election at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years. (Kyodo)

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman casts her ballot in a local election at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years. (Kyodo)

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S. Koreans vote in local elections overshadowed by ship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea - Seoul Mayor Oh Se Hoon, running for reelection for the ruling Grand National Party, and his wife Song Hyun Ok cast their ballots at a polling station in Seoul on June 2, 2010. Nearly 4,000 officials, including 16 metropolitan mayors and provincial governors, will be chosen in the first nationwide election in two years. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (R) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Taue received the award together with former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (L) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Akiba received the award together with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II. (Kyodo)

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New Hiroshima mayor visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) hold a press conference in the Nagasaki city office on May 10, 2011. Matsui visited Nagasaki in southwestern Japan for the first time since being elected mayor of the western Japan city in April. The mayors of the two atomic-bombed cities agreed during their talks to deepen cooperation in efforts to realize a world free of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Regional elections across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto casts his ballot in the election on April 10, 2011, to choose members of the Osaka prefectural assembly at a polling station in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The first of two unified rounds of regional polls slated for April were held the same day to pick governors of 12 of Japan's 47 prefectures, mayors of four cities and assembly members of 41 prefectures and 15 of the country's major cities. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura

OSAKA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura answers questions from reporters in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives. (Kyodo)

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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is pictured in Osaka on the night of Feb. 3, 2012, after holdings talks with Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura. The two mayors discussed cooperation for the next election of the House of Representatives. (Kyodo)

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Antinuclear conference in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeki Nishihara (R), mayor of Makinohara, a Shizuoka Prefecture city, speaks during a session of mayors of Japanese municipalities at the Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 15, 2012. The two-day conference ended the same day after adopting the Yokohama Declaration. (Kyodo)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis, left, gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Andrej Babis

Prime Minister Andrej Babis gives a briefing on Czech Senate second round elections in Sokolovna Pruhonice, Czech Republic, on Saturday, October 10, 2020. The Mayors and Independents (STAN) clearly won the Senate elections, gaining 11 ouf of the 27 seats contested, ahead of two other opposition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) with five seats and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) with three seats. The Social Democrats (junior government CSSD) did not defend a single of the ten seats it was defending. The CSSD will not even have its own group in the 81-seat upper house anymore because it will have only three senators, while at least five are needed to form a group. The ANO movement of PM Babis got weaker as well because it defended one of the two seats it was defending. TOP 09 will have four senators instead of two. The Pirates, who had only one senator, will have two. Both senators for the Senator 21 movement whose mandate expired defended their seats. The regional Hradec Democratic Club and the marginal Free Citizens Party will have one senator each. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)