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 [...]

    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 [...]

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 [...]