Intense Defeat for the Ruling Parties at Regional Elections

An election defeat was expected, but not this extent: The governing parties ODS, KDU-CSL and the Greens had to accept a shattering setback at the regional and senate elections held at the weekend at a poll of 40 per cent. The opposing Social Democrats almost tripled their mandate number in the circle represantations (from 105 to 280 mandates) against whom the ODS lost more than 100 mandates and holds culminated 180 mandates merely now instead of 291