Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election : NPR
The president of the opposition “ano” (yes) the Andrej Babiš movement arrives to vote in a polling station in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic on Friday. The populist billionaire won a parliamentary election on Saturday.
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PRAGUE – The Czech Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš won a parliamentary election on Saturday in a political return to AA which removed the country on a course to support Ukraine and to Hungary and Slovakia, who have taken a pro -Russian path.
The votes of almost 98% of polling stations counted by the Statistics Office, the Babiš ANO (Yes) Movement (Yes) captured 35% of the votes, followed by the pro-Western coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala with 23.0%. The coalition beat him in the 2021 elections.
The two -day elections filled 200 seats in the lower room of the Czech Parliament. A group of mayors known as Stan, also a member of the Fiala government, had 11.1% of the vote, with another ally of Fiala, the Pirates party, reaching 8.7%.
The main anti-migrant force, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, obtained 7.9% while a right-wing group called motorists received 6.8%. Both are potential partners for Babiš if he wants to have a majority government.
