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“Drain the swamp” may not have been the catchphrase Andrej Babis and his ANO party used to win 30% of the vote in the Czech Republic, but it wasn’t far off. The billionaire who often draws comparisons with Donald Trump struck a huge blow against establishment parties by winning the biggest chunk of parliament and positioning themselves to form a coalition government of their choosing.
ANO (Action for Dissatisfied Citizens Party) means “Yes” in Czech. The voters gave the party the affirmative despite Babis facing criminal fraud charges. He had also been accused of using his money to flood the airwaves to keep a very damaging allegation out of voters’ minds; he’s accused of being a willing collaborator with the StB, a Cold War era secret police force.
The current ruling coalition leaders, the Social Democrats, came in with an abysmal 7.5% of the vote. Their poor showing was below the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (11%) and even the Communist Party (8.5%).
“The Social Democrat party was a threat to democracy itself and it has paid the price now,” said Jan Urban, a politics professor at New York University in Prague. “Babis is a product of the system that was developed by them and the Civic Democrats. It has just got to the point where he has outwitted them. There are so many wild stories about him but I would be much calmer. I don’t expect Babis to rock the boat.”
Further Reading
Trump-style billionaire populist on brink of power in Czech Republic | World news | The Guardian
As the owner of a conglomerate of 230 firms that includes food, biofuel and fertiliser companies, Babis is worth an estimated $4.1bn. Critics say his companies are the country’s biggest recipients of EU and Czech state subsidies, while he has been in a position to influence how funds are distributed. Last week he was charged with fraud over allegations that he had illegally received EU grants to develop a hotel and conference centre, Capi Hnezdo (Stork’s Farm), in the Bohemian countryside.
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