Upwards of 170 Romani men and women are running in this year's local elections in the Czech Republic and vying for seats on the local assemblies of cities and municipal departments. The elections will take place on Friday 23 September and Saturday 24 September and more than 195,000 candidates total will compete.
Local elections are always combined with elections to one-third of the Senate, and the runoff second round will be held one week later. Just one Romani candidate, Štěpán Kavúr, is running for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) to become the senator from the Municipal Department of Prague 10.
