Populist hard-to-line billionaire with a pro-Russian oblique victory in the Czech Republic, official results show | Luck
Billionaire Andrej Babiš became another populist leader in Central Europe to stand a political return by winning the Big in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections on Saturday.
This result could avert the country from the support of Ukraine and towards Hungary and Slovakia, which took a pro -Russian journey.
The results of 99.5% of polling stations were counted by the Statistical Office, the Babiš ‘YES (YES) movement captured 34.7% of the votes, defeating the conservative coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, which received 23.2%.
Babiš was after his best election result of Jobilant and called him “historical” for himself and his political group “Catch-All” because in 2013 it attacked national policy.
“We want the Czech Republic to become the best place of life in the European Union and do everything to happen,” he told his supporters and the media.
Babiš would join the ranks of Prime Minister Viktor Orban from Hungary and Robert Fico from Slovakia, whose country refused to provide military assistance to Ukraine, continues to import Russian oil and opposite sanctions of the European Union.
The Czech Republic is a fixed supporter of Ukraine from the Russian invasion in full scale in February 2022. The country donated weapons, includes heavy weapons to Ukrainian armed forces and is behind the initiative that receives Ukraine from the external EU.
“We donate,” Babiš said about this internationally recognized initiative. “We have a different view,” he said.
The opposition led by Babiš accused Fiala for all the problems of recent years, from the energy crisis to the increasing inflation, and undertook to abolish his pension reform and help for Ukraine.
Fiala congratulated him, saying that the result was clear and “need to be accepted”.
His campaign focused on security in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in full.
A group of mayors known as a tent, also a member of Fiala’s government, had 11.1% of votes, with another ally of Fiala, Pirates Party, reached 8.7%.
The main strength against migrants, the freedom and direct democracy party gained 7.9%, while the right -wing group called 6.8%motorists.
Babis said that his goal was to create a government of one party and would have to seek the tolerance of both groups.
Two -day election girl 200 seats in the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament. Babis won 80 seats, the freedom party has 15 and the motorist 13. The coalition won 52.
Last year he connected with his friend Orbán and created a new alliance in the European Parliament, “Patriots for Europe” to reproduce the hard right -wing groups, which is a significant shift from the liberal restoration of the group that Babiš previously belonged.
The patriots are united by rhetoric against migrants, a critical attitude to politicians dealing with climate change, and protection of national sovereignty.
Motorists who are supported in the form of EU-scopic President Václav Klaus share opinions, while the Freedom Party wants to lead a country from the EU and NATO and plans to exclude almost all about 380,000 Ukrainian refugees from the country.
“They were clearly pro-European and pro-nato,” Babiš said after the victory.
President Petr Pavel is scheduled to meet with Babis and other parties on Sunday. The leader of the strongest political forces usually gets the chance of the President to create a new government.
If he wants to rule himself, his minority cabinet would need at least silent support from the party of freedom and motorists to gain a mandate of parliamentary confidence of vote on governance.
The result was a fiasco for the coalition of four distant left-wing marginal parties led by Maveric Communists, who are openly pro-Russian and facing their place.
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