BBC/ The Social Democrats have won control of the senate, giving them the power to slow spending plans, including a 10% cut in the wages of public sector workers.
Their leader, Bohuslav Sobotk, (pictured) wants to make the governmental reforms "socially more tolerable".
The cuts provoked a large protest in Prague last month.
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