Saturday, 9 October 2021

Czech PM set to lose power after weak showing in general election

Andrej Babiš unlikely to be able to form another coalition, signalling the end of post-communist era

Andrej Babiš, the Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister, is close to losing power after his party and its coalition partners lost significant ground in a general election fought days after embarrassing revelations about his financial affairs.

In a poll overshadowed by intense speculation about the health of the Czech president, Miloš Zeman, the prime minister’s Action for Dissatisfied Citizens party (ANO) was tied with an opposition faction to be the largest grouping after its share of the vote fell from its victorious 2017 election. With nearly all the votes counted, Spolu (Together) had 27.7% of the vote compared with ANO’s 27.2%, a result that sparked celebrations at Spolu’s headquarters.

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