Ostrava court invalidates local elections in Český Těším

An Ostrava court on Monday invalidated October’s local elections in the town of Český Těšín after several witnesses testified they had seen people getting paid to vote for a certain party. The party in question, SOS for Český Tešín, is reported to have offered – and in some cases paid out - three hundred crowns for a vote in its favour. The party received six out of 27 mandates. The other parties in the running filed a joint complaint questioning the regularity of the elections and asking they be repeated. Last week a court in Usti heard a similar case and invalidated the result of local elections in the town of Krupka, in north Bohemia.