05.01.2018 Senatorial elections start in the Trutnov area

The first round of additional elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic starts today in the Trutnov electoral district. In total, nine candidates (five of whom are women) run for one seat in the Senate. The average age of the candidates is 54 years.

Polling stations in the electoral district No 39 will be opened today from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. and tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; afterwards, ward election committees will start to count votes and write a record about the progress and the result of the voting. The record shall be signed by all members of the ward election committee confirming thereby that it is correct, for which they are also fully responsible. One counterpart of the record will be handed over to the Czech Statistical Office, which will sum up the results and publish them.

“Provided that in the first round of the senatorial elections no candidate wins an overall majority of votes, there will be a run-off second round for the two candidates with highest numbers of votes. The run-off would be carried out on 12 and 13 January 2018 (Friday and Saturday),” Marek Rojíček , Vice-President of the Czech Statistical Office, says.

Besides that, local elections will be carried out tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in a municipality called Prameny (in the Karlovy Vary Region). “In this election period, inhabitants of Prameny will participate in the elections to vote their representatives already for the second time. There are 19 valid candidates running in the elections for 5 positions of councillors in the municipality of Prameny . The average age of the candidates is almost 48 years,” Eva Krumpová, Vice-President of the Czech Statistical Office, said.

Election results will be gradually published at: www.volby.cz/index_en.htm .

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