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Elections Czech Republic: Populist billionaire Babis loses, center-right coalition wins Together

The Czech center-right Alliance Together narrowly won today’s parliamentary elections in Czech republic, according to the almost complete results, while the first results had given the victory to the populist billionaire prime minister Andrei Babis.

After counting more than 99% of the votes, the Together Alliance received 27.78%, while the populist ANO movement in Babis received 27.14%.

According to analysts, this shift is due to the fact that the ballot papers of voters in large cities were counted in the end.

Babis will lead the talks on the next government if his president so requests

Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babis has said he will lead talks on the next government if his president so requests after the parliamentary elections.

Babis, speaking after the results showed that his ruling party ANO came second in the vote, congratulated the opposition coalition Together for his victory.

The Coalition Together and the Liberal Alliance Pirates / Mayors won a majority of seats and said they wanted to form a government.

Outside the parliament, the communist party for the first time since the Second World War

Meanwhile, Czech voters, for the first time since the end of World War II, ousted the Communists from parliament, turning their backs on the party whose predecessors ruled the Central European country from 1948 until the 1989 Velvet Revolution. which established democracy.

Communists imprisoned tens of thousands in forced labor camps in the 1950s and brutally suppressed dissidents such as playwright Vaclav Havel, but remained in parliament after the revolution.

In this week’s election, however, the Bohemian Communist Party and Moravia received 3.62% of the vote, with almost all constituencies announcing results, less than the 5% required to enter parliament.

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