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BBC: Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election Retired Nato general Petr Pavel has been elected as the new president of the Czech Republic, seeing off his populist challenger Andrej Babis. The 61-year-old took 57.6%…
With all the ballots counted by the Czech Statistics Office, Pavel had 58.3 per cent of the vote compared with 42.7 per cent for Babis. Voter turnout was just over 70 per cent.
Champagne flows as former general defeats billionaire populist rival Andrej Babiš by largest margin in the country’s historyPetr Pavel, a retired general and former senior Nato commander, has swept to the Czech presidency after a landslide victory over…
BBC: Czechs to vote in second round of presidential election Czech voters are going to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to President Milos Zeman, whose second term ends in March.The second-round runoff between former Prime Minister …
Behind in the polls, the former PM has resorted to a no-holds-barred attack on his presidential rival, Petr PavelThe former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš faces a potentially career-defining reckoning this weekend when voters deliver their verdict i…
A plan from Czech railways to replace the emblematic landmark with a modern structure is facing an impassioned backlashA historic Prague railway bridge, whose importance to the city’s landscape has been compared to the Eiffel tower in Paris, has been e…
Ex-PM ratchets up rhetoric after surprise loss to former army chief and Nato military chair Gen Petr PavelThe former Czech Republic prime minister Andrej Babiš has set the scene for a bitter presidential election showdown dominated by rows over the cou…
Presidential candidate Petr Pavel arrives to address media after announcement of the preliminary results for the first round of presidential election in Prague. AP Photo Reuters: Retired general, ex-premier to square off in Czech presidential ru…
Both candidates, Petr Pavel and Andrej Babis, are expected to foster closer ties to the West.
Poll has become a tussle between three frontrunners whose campaigns have all hit problemsVoters in the Czech Republic go to the polls this week to elect a new president in a contest that could set the country on a renewed path of populism or bring to o…