In the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, two opposition alliances surprisingly achieved a majority.

The populist head of government Andrej Babiš had to admit defeat after almost all the votes were counted.

The opposition alliances came on Saturday after counting almost all constituencies together on 109 of the 200 seats in the House of Representatives in Prague.

The conservative electoral alliance Spolu (Together) was accordingly with 27.7 percent of the vote, the alliance of the pirate and mayor parties 15.5 percent.

"The change is here, we are the change," said Spolu top candidate Petr Fiala, who claimed the formation of a majority government.

A stalemate looms

According to the latest results, the ANO of Prime Minister Babiš only came to 27.2 percent.

At the end of the election campaign, Babiš had been overtaken by revelations from the “Pandora Papers”.

According to research by an international network of journalists, he is said to have bought real estate in France through foreign letterbox companies in 2009.

He denied money laundering allegations.

A stalemate looms after the election.

President Miloš Zeman has stressed several times in the past that he would not give government mandate to an electoral alliance, but to the strongest individual party.

In any case, that would be Babiš's populist ANO, as Spolu consists of the three parties ODS, TOP09 and KDU-CSL.

A spokesman for the president announced that Babiš would be received for an interview on Sunday morning.

The 77-year-old Zeman makes no secret of his support for the politician.

"Basically, he does not respect the majority in parliament," said political scientist Tomas Lebeda on the CT channel.

That contradicts the constitution, which aims to find majorities.

The turnout in the election was around 65 percent - significantly more than at the last poll four years ago.

The previous partners of the Babiš party experienced a debacle: the Social Democrats (ČSSD), who formed a coalition with it, and the communists, who had tolerated them, failed because of the five percent hurdle.

Interior Minister Jan Hamáček announced his resignation as ČSSD party chairman.

Only four parties will be represented in parliament.

Right-wing freedom and direct democracy, which railed against migrants, Muslims, the EU and NATO, received almost ten percent of the vote.