Elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech Parliament, will be held on Friday, October 3, and Saturday, October 4 — a decision made by Czech President Petr Pavel.
The announcement was made on Tuesday by presidential spokesperson Vojtěch Šeliga.
Šeliga noted that in accordance with the Constitution and the law on parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, President Pavel decided to announce the elections to the Chamber of Deputies and set the dates for Friday, October 3, and Saturday, October 4, 2025.
The last elections were held on October 8–9, 2021, with the SPOLU (“Together”) coalition emerging as the winner.
President Pavel had previously stated that he would decide on the election dates during May. He was reluctant to announce them too early to avoid the risk of political parties attempting to circumvent election campaign restrictions.
A new feature of these elections will be the possibility of voting remotely from abroad — a common practice in many other countries.
So far, in pre-election polls, the opposition ANO movement, led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, is clearly in the lead with more than 30% support. It is ahead of the SPOLU coalition, which includes ODS, KDU-ČSL, and TOP 09.
Babiš has been echoing the rhetoric of leaders like Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Robert Fico in Slovakia, insisting that the true solution to the Russian war in Ukraine lies in diplomacy, not in sending more weapons.
