Czech Pirates Win 18 Seats in Parliament!

The Czech Pirate Party won 18 seats in the October 2025 election for Parliament! 🥳

Unfortunately, the main winner of the election was the populist billionaire and former prime minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement. He has expressed skepticism toward support for Ukraine and has drawn closer to authoritarian leaders such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The Czech Pirates run on a diametrically opposed platform. The overall result of 8.7% of the vote makes them the 3rd largest party in the country. While the success is not quite as monumental as when they won 22 seats in 2017. It does represent a vast improvement from just 4 seats that the the Pirates won in 2021. In that year they ran in the Pirates and Mayors (STAN) alliance. That alliance won 37 seats in total. The Pirates ran independently this year after separating from STAN.

The Czech Pirate Party is a member of Pirate Parties International. We appreciate the strong support they provide internationally, and we wish them good luck with their upcoming term!