Twenty years is an eternity in politics, but for much of the two decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) has discovered that voters have long memories.

Note: This is the extended interview with Karolína Peake. An abbreviated version appeared in print on May 18 and can be found here. Karolína Peake has just been asked if she sees a scenario that could put an end to the endless scrutiny the Public Affairs (VV) party receives from the media and in political [...]

A Prague Municipal Court has upheld the Oct. 15-16 local election results in the face of a judicial challenge, paving the way for a likely grand coalition in City Hall between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (ČSSD). The judgment was released shortly after 1:30 p.m. today. “The Municipal Court concluded that during [...]

Check out analysis of the behind the scenes maneuverings to gain control of Prague City Hall including comments from political analysts Jiři Pehe and Bohumil Doležal in today’s print Prague Post, and a report on how the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (ČSSD) may look to form a “grand coalition” between themselves and bypass [...]

    The second round of Senate elections ended in triumph for the opposition Social Democrats (ČSSD). For full analysis on the implications of the victory on the governing coalition check out the Oct. 27 print edition of the Prague Post, but here is a summary of how things broke down… ČSSD won 12 of [...]

    Get a full round up and analysis of the local and Senate election results in the Oct. 20 print edition of the Prague Post, but here are some early Sunday morning results.  The Civic Democrats (ODS) have lost control of city councils in all of the Czech Republic’s major cities with the exception [...]

Check out today’s print edition of The Prague Post for details about how tensions between President Václav Klaus and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg could be working to divide the governing coalition. Here are a few excerpts from our interview with political analyst Bohumil Doležal (former chief political advisor to Klaus when he was prime minister) [...]

Prague residents awoke Sunday morning to (or more likely were awoken by) the sounds of street cleaners. While the city does usually do a commendable job of cleaning gutters, sweeping streets and emptying trash bins (at least in the city center), the scale and timing of things Sunday had the ring of something different — [...]

Read about the growing list of disagreements between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and TOP 09 in the Sept. 1 edition of the Prague Post.  But since we went to print things have already gotten worse. The two parties will face off in local elections in October and are both fighting to the big prize: control [...]

The citizens organization Oživení (Revival) launched another protest of Prague City Hall’s bothched OpenCard — meant to be an all-purpose card replacing monthly transit passes, library cards and which can be used in city-owned parking facilities, among other things. The project was mired with delays and accusations of misdealing by City Hall and the contractor [...]