What you are actually electing
Prague is both a city and a region, and it is split into 57 city districts that are separate self-governing units with their own assemblies. You elect two of these bodies at once, and the boundary between what they decide is not intuitive — which is the reason this site exists.
Two assemblies, two ballots
The Prague city assembly
65 seats
The city-wide tier. It approves the city budget, the metropolitan plan, city-wide transport policy and fares, the disposal of city-owned property, and it elects the city council and the mayor of Prague. Most of the money and most of the decisions that shape the city as a whole sit here.
Your city district assembly
5–45 seats, depending on the district
The local tier, from Prague 1 to Prague-Nedvězí. Districts run their own smaller budgets, the flats and buildings entrusted to them, nursery and primary schools, local parks and cleaning, and they give opinions on building projects in their area. What exactly a district may do is set by the Statute of the City of Prague and differs between them.
Why the split matters when you read a promise
A promise that is routine business at city hall is often entirely outside a district’s powers — and the other way round. Party programmes rarely mention the line, so a voter cannot see it from the leaflet. A district candidate promising to build a metro line, or to change the zoning plan, is promising something their assembly cannot decide.
Which tier decides what — agency by agency, with the statutory provision for each
How this site assesses promises
The Czech pages assess whether a promise is deliverable — not whether it is true and not whether it is a good idea. Four independent axes: does this tier have the power, is there money for it, can it be done in four years, and what does the record of earlier commitments show. The hardest obstacle decides: a promise outside the tier’s powers stays outside them however well funded it is.
The money
Rough orders of magnitude matter more than exact figures when you are judging a promise. The Czech page sets out the city’s budget and the districts’ budgets from the approved budget documents, so you can tell whether a proposal is a rounding error or a structural commitment.
The Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the national parliament, not a Prague body. Three of Prague’s constituencies are contested in 2026, so some Prague voters get a third ballot and some do not. Senators vote on national legislation and constitutional changes; they do not decide anything about the city.