{"id":7223,"date":"2019-05-27T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2019-05-27T01:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:28:57","slug":"eu-election-results-ano-wins-opposition-parties-see-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/eu-election-results-ano-wins-opposition-parties-see-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Election Results: ANO Wins, Opposition Parties See Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article\">\n<p>The centre-right ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161, as expected, won the European Parliament elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ANO got 21.2% of the vote (6 seats), the Civic Democrats 14.5% (4 seats), the Pirates 13.95% (3 seats), the alliance between TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents 11.6% (3 seats), and the Christian Democrats 7.2% (2 seats).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy got 9.1% (2 seats) and the largely unreformed Communists 6.9% (1 seat).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ANO&#8217;s coalition partner, the left-leaning Social Democrats, failed to gain a mandate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Competing for the 21 mandates were a record 40 parties and movements fielded in total 841 candidates in the Czech Republic. According to the Czech Statistical Office, turnout was 28.7 percent, up from 18.2 percent five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the EU as a whole, turnout was above 50 percent, preliminary results show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.cz\/en\/section\/news\/czech-eu-elections-turnout-high-ano-wins-opposition-parties-gain\">Radio Praha<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre-right ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161, as expected, won the European Parliament elections. &nbsp; ANO got 21.2% of the vote (6 seats), the Civic Democrats 14.5% (4 seats), the Pirates 13.95% (3 seats), the alliance between TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents 11.6% (3 seats), and the Christian Democrats 7.2% (2 seats). &#8230; <a title=\"EU Election Results: ANO Wins, Opposition Parties See Gains\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/eu-election-results-ano-wins-opposition-parties-see-gains\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EU Election Results: ANO Wins, Opposition Parties See Gains\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[15,17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU Election Results: ANO Wins, Opposition Parties See Gains - Prague Business Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/eu-election-results-ano-wins-opposition-parties-see-gains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EU Election Results: ANO Wins, Opposition Parties See Gains - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The centre-right ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161, as expected, won the European Parliament elections. &nbsp; ANO got 21.2% of the vote (6 seats), the Civic Democrats 14.5% (4 seats), the Pirates 13.95% (3 seats), the alliance between TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents 11.6% (3 seats), and the Christian Democrats 7.2% (2 seats). ... 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