Trumpist Andrej Babis wins election in the Czech Republic and wants to change the country's political course
If the government is taken over, it appears that the Czech Republic will change the direction of its foreign and defence policy and will maintain more critical positions by aligning itself with Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary.
Babis, celebrating the election victory.
The agro-industrialist Andrej Babis won the election this Saturday in the Czech Republic with his Eurocratic programme against arms and immigration to Ukraine.
With about 90% of the ballots counted, the party of former Prime Minister and billionaire Babis has won 36%of the votes, 85 seats, since the Parliament has had 200, while the alliance of the Liberal Centre of the acting Head of Government eta has won 22.2% and 50 deputies.
Third, according to this count, is the Mayor's Party (Stan), a partner of the current government, with 10.9% support and 20 seats, while the pro-Russian and xenophobic SPD is tied to the Pirates Liberal Party.
While pirates have won 8.4% of the vote , the SPD, led by Czech-Japanese Tomio Okamura, has won 8% and will have 16 seats in the next parliament.
With this result, Babis could form a government with the support of the SPD and thereby reverse foreign and security policy.
The former prime minister who calls himself a "Trumpist" wants to change the country's policy, partly in line with the pro-Russian positions of Viktor Orban's Hungarian government. But his return to power will depend on complicated alliances, because he has not obtained a majority to govern alone.
"I'm a Trumpist because I agree with his program (Donald Trump)," said the populist candidate, who promised torun"the state as a company." .
If the government is taken over, it appears that the Czech Republic will change the course of its foreign and defence policy and will maintain more critical positions with Ukraine, like Slovakia and Hungary.
Moreover, the leader and founder of the ANO party is a declared ally of Orban, but analysts insist on his pragmatic and opportunistic character, which removes him from the toughest ideological positions of the Hungarian prime minister.
Without questioning his country's accession to NATO and the EU, Babis opposes the introduction of the euro into the Czech Republic.
In July 2024 he wasone of the founders of the far-right group in the European Parliament. Other nationalist parties, such as RN (France), Vox (Spain) or FPÖ (Austria), are part of this group.
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