PRAGUE, Oct 26: Two left-wing parties appear to have finished first and third in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election but failed to win enough seats to use their alliance to form a coalition government.

The two-day election, which concluded on Saturday, was called to end a political crisis triggered by the center-right government’s collapse.With the votes from 98 per cent of the nation’s polling stations counted, the Czech Statistics Office said the left-wing Social Democrats won 20.63pc and the Communists received 15.04pc.

The new centrist ANO (YES) movement, which campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket, finished second with 18.70pc.

The rest of the votes were won by four other parties.

The election was called after Prime Minister Petr Necas’ center-right coalition broke down in June amid corruption allegations.—AP