PRAGUE, Jan 10 — The Czech Republic’s presidential election this weekend pits a retired general, a billionaire ex-prime minister and an economics professor in a battle to...
PRAGUE, Jan 10 — The Czech Republic’s presidential election this weekend pits a retired general, a billionaire ex-prime minister and an economics professor in a battle to replace Milos Zeman, the retiring heavyweight of the country’s post-communist era.
The European Union and Nato country’s presidents do not wield much executive power but are stronger than in some other parliamentary systems. The election comes as inflation is running near 20 per cent amid soaring energy prices and the country is in a mild recession. Babis, 68, a farming, chemicals and media billionaire whose ANO party is the strongest in parliament, got a boost when a court cleared him on Monday of fradulently getting a 2 million euro EU subsidy.
Pavel and Nerudova have a clearer pro-Ukraine message than Babis. Both support adopting the euro, a subject successive governments including Babis’s have avoided.“Our country is getting poorer. The government...absolutely fails to cope with the crisis,” he said in a campaign video. “I will not let the government get a breather and will force it to work for you.”
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