Eurosceptic Babiš on course to win power in Czech election

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European billionaire Andrig Babi and his party in Ano on his way to return to power in the Czech Republic, as a result, threatens to undermine Western support for Ukraine.

The National Elections Committee said that 99 percent of the votes that were calculated in the parliamentary elections in the country, nearly 35 percent before the Spulo -right Alliance of Prime Minister Peter Viela, which attracted 23 percent of the vote.

To restore the prime minister that he lost in 2021, Babi said late on Saturday that he hoped to form the Ano government supported by two smaller right parties. Depending on the initial results, Ano was expected to get 80 seats from 200 seats in the lower parliament of Parliament, with potential Ano-SPD extremist SPD extremist and car drivers-in a row 15 and 13 seats.

The return of the businessman who turned into a politician holds Western support to Ukraine, especially since Ano has warned that it will withdraw from an initiative led by Prague, which provides the ammunition of Kiev.

During the campaign, Viela frams the elections as a choice between keeping the Czech Republic firmly in the European Union and NATO, or allowing Ano to align the country more closely with the governments supporting Russia in Hungary and Slovakia.

Last year, Ano participated in the founding of a European parliamentary group alongside the Fieldsz party in Hungary, led by Prime Minister VikTor Orbán. The bloc also includes the National Freedom Party in France, both of which are developed right -wing formations with a history of the pro -Russian sympathy.

Babiš strongly denied that he was a supporter of the employee, and insisted that he had never met President Vladimir Putin, unlike Prime Minister Urban and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, both of whom visited the Kremlin since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

“Babiš is not an extremist but a deals and a popular manufacturer who wants to have a comprehensive party and believes that he can present something to everyone,” said Peter Kulham, a former ambassador in Russia, before the vote.

“I don’t think Babiš will be against [more] He added: “I think Babiš is inspired by Urban, he admires him, but he does not want to be seen as a stimulus installed in Brussels a lot.”

SPD has called the extremist right -wing referendum to leave the European Union. But the celebration of his victory on Saturday, Babi said that his party in Anu was “clearly supportive of Europe and Mauritan NATO”, determined to “save Europe” by preventing the legislation of the green deal in the European Union and Immigration.

Babi said: “Europe is suffering, Europe is no longer competitive.”

Orbán and Fico Babiš congratulated Saturday evening. “The truth has prevailed!” Urban wrote on X, describing the result, “A big step for the Czech Republic, good news for Europe.”

Simulation of President Donald Trump’s campaign tactics in the United States, Babiš ran on an anti -immigration platform, and the sale of red baseball caps full of “strong Chasea”. He also used his wealth and commercial form to claim that he could clean the Czech political swamp.

However, the Babiš Victory will again draw attention to the conflict of potential interests on Agrofrt, and its agricultural and chemical bloc. Since his departure, he has faced court cases due to allegations of European Union’s fraudulent support payments related to the group dating back to 2015.

The coalition talks can also be affected by President Peter Paville, who will nominate the next Prime Minister. Pavel, a former NATO commander, worked closely with the Viela government to support Ukraine and combat the alleged Russian misinformation campaigns.

Pavel Anu congratulated his victory and said he would meet her leader on Sunday to discuss the formation of the next government.

Before voting, Pavel urged citizens to “not leave us at the mercy of Russia.” But the Czech president wrote on Saturday to X that “the results show that the voters have unambiguously emphasized the unambiguous trend in our country in our country.”

The unexpected loser in the elections was a group of volatile left led by the Czech Communists, which was absent from the threshold of 5 percent of the votes required to enter Parliament.