Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis's opposition ANO party won most of the country's major cities in municipal elections seen as a test for the ruling coalition's handling of the energy crisis.
The Czech Republic, similar to other European Union member countries, has been struggling with soaring inflation pushed up mainly by high energy prices. The opposition has been saying that the government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala has done too little too late to help the people.
The most seats in the local assemblies - 38,099 out of the total 61,796 - go to various groups of independent candidates, which tend to score the most in this kind of election. Czechs also voted in the first round of the parliament's upper chamber election, where one third of the Senate's 81 seats are contested. Three seats were filled already in the first round.
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