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Retired NATO general Petr Pavel has been elected as the new president of the Czech Republic, seeing off his populist challenger Andrej Babis
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- Title
- Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election
- Published
- Jan 28 2023
The latest polls I heard about had it split pretty evenly around 51/49.
The actual result was not even close at over 56 percent. The discrepancy is surprisingly large and that affects how people vote and how campaigning is done. It'll be interesting to see how experts explain the difference in the next couple of weeks.
It was nearly guaranteed coming close to the end that PP (haha) will win, the betting companies even gave Babiš 10x odds near the end. Even after the end of the first round it felt quite probable, since Pavel got more votes even in it (35.4% compared to Babiš with 34.99%), which not many people expected. After the first round almost every knocked out from the first round rallied behind Pavel, including Danuše Nerudová who had the third most votes (13,92%) and Pavel Fischer (6.75%). Most people consider Babiš to be basically the countries biggest boogieman for years now.
I am really happy that we won't have a liar and a thief as president, and instead will have a person who looks very respectable. It has been a long time since our president wasn't a clown too. All Zeman did was embarrass our country in his second term. And having Zeman as president who is fat, old, plus an alcoholic and smoker wasn't too flattering for our country too.