🇪🇺 MEP Ivan David (SPD) announced he will be joining the new AfD-created faction “Europe of Sovereign Nations.”

🇪🇺 Klára Dostálová (ANO) will serve as Vice-Chairwoman of the Patriots for Europe faction in EP. Přísaha MEPs Filip Turek and Nikola Bartůšek are also listed as members of Patriots.

🇪🇺 MEP Kateřina Konečná (KSČM) left the LEFT faction in the European Parliament, citing ideological differences over Green Deal and migration. She will sit with Ondřej Dostál (SD-SN) among the Non-Inscrits. They intend to cooperate with the German BSW.

📊 Poll by MEDIAN from May.

🇨🇿 SPD has formed a state-wide coalition with PRO and Trikolora for the upcoming Regional and Senate elections.

🇪🇺 Newly re-elected MEP Martin Hlaváček will not be assuming his post due to “serious personal reasons.” Municipal representative from České Budějovice Tomáš Kubín will become MEP instead.

✝️ Christian democratic KDU-ČSL party changed its logo. What do you think?

🏴‍☠️ Founder of the Czech Pirate party Jiří Kadeřávek has terminated his party membership and publicly apologized for creating the party. He left in response to proposed state register of tourists, which would give the state personal information of hotel guests.

🚗 Matěj Gregor has left Svobodní and joined Motoristé with the aim to create a new youth organization, the “Motor Generation.” Gregor is a municipal representative in Ostrava and ran 2nd on the Svobodní list for European Parliament.

🇪🇺 The government has selected Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela as its candidate for European Commissioner.

📊 July poll from NMS Market Research Czech. Přísaha scores an all-time record high, surpassing SPD.

🚩 KSČM leaving the LEFT group in the European Parliament marks the first time that the group doesn’t hold a single seat in any post-communist country since their admission into the EU in 2004.

🚨🚔 Mayor of Chomutov and Leader of ANO in the upcoming Regional Elections in the Ústí Region Marek Hrabáč has been arrested due to suspected involvement in an embezzlement scheme.

💰 Senator Lukáš Wagenknecht (Piráti) opens inquiry into Czech munitions aid to Ukraine, claiming that the initiative was overpriced by €55 million. This claim was rejected by Defense Minister Jana Černochová (ODS) and Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Lipavský (Piráti).

⚖️ Ex-Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09) is filing a lawsuit against SPD’s campaign due to alleged hate speech. SPD campaign published a post depicting an African migrant with a knife with text “Healthcare shortages won’t be fixed by imported surgeons.”

Průzkum ze začátku srpna od NMS Market Research (druhý veřejný). Do Sněmovny by se dostalo 6 stran, 2 těsně ne. Roste ODS a trochu také ANO a Zelení. Pokles u Přísahy, menší Svobodných, Pirátů a SPD. Nově v modelu Motoristé.

📊 Poll by NMS Market Research Czech from August, coalition scenario. Percentages of parties which ran in coalition during the previous EP election or are running in the upcoming regional elections were added together. Electoral threshold for coalitions was not applied.

Median měřil, jak by to vypadalo v červenci. Poskočilo ANO a ODS a o procentní bod také SOCDEM. Ztratili Piráti, KDU-ČSL a TOP 09. Ostatní jen drobné změny, zpět v modelu je Trikolora. V tomto modelu nejsou Motoristé, kteří u NMS měli 4 %.