Former PM Andrej Babis has framed the vote as a protest against the centre-right government he accuses of doing too little to help people handle soaring living costs
A retired general who held a senior NATO military job headed into the Czech Republic’s presidential election starting on Friday as a favourite ahead of his main rivals - a divisive former prime minister and an economics professor.
Babis has framed the vote as a protest against the centre-right government he accuses of doing too little to help people handle soaring living costs.“This asocial government...says we are not going to give money to people, we don’t have the money, and under pressure they give it out too late.” Only Pavel, Babis and Nerudova have a chance of making it to the second round, polls show. There pollsters give Pavel an edge, expecting him to gather more votes from other candidates than Babis. Betting agency Fortuna saw Pavel as favourite at 1-1.42 to win ahead of Babis at 1-3.50.
Pavel has distanced himself from Orban, who has squared off with EU partners over rule of law, and said differences over values raised the question of whether to leave the central Europe’s Visegrad Group, which also includes Poland and Slovakia.
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