British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to hold a snap election backfired as the Conservative Party lost its majority in the United Kingdom parliament.
The Conservative Party would now need to form a coalition government with another party to form a majority, while were hoping for Labour do the same with other more left-wing parties.
With almost all votes counted, the Conservative Party is set to end up with 319 seats, according to the BBC.
The Czech prime minister said Friday that Britain should not be granted any extension on the two-year deadline for the Brexit talks.
Speaking Friday, leader Arlene Foster said the DUP would enter into discussions with the Prime Minister to "bring stability to our nation at this time of great challenge".
After calling a snap election in April in anticipation of a landslide, she ended up with an electoral train wreck, in which her Conservative Party actually lost its parliamentary majority.
Britain's best-selling Sun newspaper said senior members of her party had vowed to get rid of May, but would wait at least six months because they were anxious that a leadership contest now could propel Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn into power.
The results come as a huge shock, and represent a significant backfire on the Conservative Party's gamble to call a snap election before the upcoming Brexit negotiations.
Visibly exhausted, May said that she obviously "wanted a different result" in Thursday's vote and that she is "sorry for all those colleagues who lost their seats who didn't deserve to lose".
With 649 of 650 seats in the House of Commons declared, the Conservatives had 318 to the Labour Party's 261.
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May experienced a gradual slide during the campaign period, in which a wide gap between the Conservatives and Labour narrowed. Steven Fielding, a professor of politics at the University of Nottingham, called her "a zombie prime minister". She had hoped to increase her party's majority in the Parliament which would strengthen her leadership.
"It is exactly the opposite of why she held the election and she then has to go and negotiate Brexit in that weakened position", said Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
On top of this, there will now probably also be an internal wrangle in the Tory party over who might replace May as leader and prime minister.
One of the lead European Union negotiators, Guy Verhofstadt, criticized May on Twitter, writing: "Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated".
"I am delighted to see Labour do so well", he told the Washington Post newspaper.
Ms May made no reference to her party's damaging losses, leading the Evening Standard, edited by former Tory finance minister George Osborne, to splash the front-page headline "Queen of Denial".
For its party, the European Union urged May on Friday to start Brexit talks as quickly as possible, but warned of complications ahead.
"Two strong partners are confident, work faster and get to results they can both accept".
One argument against forming a minority government, as opposed to forming a governing coalition with one or other parties, is that it can make it hard to pass legislation. At the time, polls suggested her party would win with a big majority. That would give May and the Conservatives a working majority.
May, who went into the election with a reputation for quiet competence, was criticized for a lackluster campaigning style and for a plan to force elderly people to pay more for their care, a proposal her opponents dubbed the "dementia tax".
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