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Czech election: Billionaire Babis wins by large margin
« on: October 23, 2017, 03:45:10 am »
Czech election: Billionaire Babis wins by large margin

Populist billionaire candidate Andrej Babis and his party have won the Czech Republic's general election.

Mr Babis, 63, is the country's second-richest man and campaigned on an anti-establishment and Eurosceptic platform.
With all votes counted, his centrist movement ANO (Yes) collected a share of almost 30% - nearly three times that of its closest rival.

The centre-right Civic Democrats and the Pirates Party came second and third with more than 10% each.
The Pirates will make their debut in parliament with 22 seats, the news agency AFP reported.

Turnout was almost 61%.

Mr Babis is now set to become prime minister after coalition negotiations. However, he told news agency Reuters that while he had "invited everyone for talks", he was not prepared to "cooperate" with either the far-right, anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party or the Communist Party.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41708844
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Re: Czech election: Billionaire Babis wins by large margin
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2017, 03:47:31 am »
UK brexit, Austria elects far right leader, Czech anti-establishment.

A trend appears to be forming. Slowly, haltingly. At the core is anti-immigration due to the primitive violent non-assimilators from muslim lands.

I thin "white guilt" has more than run its course in Europe.
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