Populist billionaire on track to win Czech election
The billionaire Andrej Babis’s Ano Party is becoming victory in the Parliamentary elections of the Czech Republic and increases the possibility of a government that will increase Europe’s populist, anti -immigration camp and reduce support to Ukraine.
Ano promised faster growth, higher wages and pensions and lower taxes and tax cuts for students and young families during the campaign.
These promises, which will test billions of euros and test the frugal mentality of the country, echoed with many checks that saw that their real income has fallen in recent years while the country’s struggle against rising inflation.
Czech media projections have shown that Ano’s Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s spatila (Together) group will earn about 35 percent of votes in front of the group, but probably the partners should manage.
Statistics office, 93 percent of the voting zones are counted as 35.7 percent of ANO and 22.5 percent of the spol of spol.
Babis and Fiala is expected to appeal to the media on Saturday evening.
President Petr Pavel, who would appoint the next prime minister, was expected to start meeting with party leaders on Sunday.
Ano was inadequate from the majority, showed results, and therefore will need other parties-the EU’s green policies and the extreme right, anti-EU and anti-NATO SPDs to form a minority cabinet.
Petr Macinka, the leader of the drivers, said that he was open to meeting with Ano and that SPD was.
“We entered the election to end the Petr Fiala Government, and support for Ano’s minority cabinet is important for us and would meet our goal for this election,” SPD would meet our goal. He said.
In general, the eaves pro -Russian parties are worse than expected in partial results, the SPD is eight percent and the most left left -wing Stacilo built around the communist party! Under five percent to enter the parliament.
Babis, who led a middle left cabin in 2017-2021, once wanted to join the Euro, but since then he became a supporter of US President Donald Trump and distributed “strong Czechian” baseball hats inspired by Trump’s Maga slogan.
Babis, an ally of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, worked with several far -right party in the European Parliament Group in the European Parliament, including the main aspect of European policies, including the exit of the carbon.
He rejected calls to referendum to leave the EU and NATO from the SPD, but he said he would end the “check initiative ılan that bought millions of artillery tour for Ukraine, which provides funds from Western donors.
Ano wants NATO and the EU to get help to Ukraine, and some European Parliament votes that support Kiev and Babis’s proposal for EU membership in the past.
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