Czech citizens went to the polls on Friday in a two-day vote to elect a third of the seats in their Parliament’s upper house as well as their regional elections. The voting took place amid the backdrop of massive flooding that hit the country and other parts of Central Europe in recent days. The flooding claimed at least 24 lives in the region, five of them in the Czech Republic. State officials helped dozens of the hardest-hit own organise their ballot in the northeast of the country, where schools and other buildings that serve as polling stations were submerged and damaged. Interior Ministr…