After converting the votes into 98 percent Electoral Districts leads with a result of 35 percent. votes, significantly ahead of the ruling center -right coalition of the Prime Minister Petr Fiali, which obtained about 22 percent. votes.
“I'm happy,” Babisz told journalists at the headquarters of the election staff on Saturday evening. He was greeted with thunderous applause by ano members, while the old Italian hit Ricchi E Poveri resounded from the speakers.
The National Electoral Commission, which compares results from over 14 thousand. 800 locations in the Czech Republic and around the world, will most likely confirm the final result by Monday. However, the introduction of a new correspondence voting system can cause delays.
Everything indicates, however, that Babisz will not rule himself. The coalition government becomes a real problem – notes Otto Eibl, a political analyst at the Masaryk University in Brno. Probably coalition parties ano They explicitly advocate a referendum regarding the speech of the Czech Republic with the EU and NATO.
In total, 4462 candidates and 26 parties compete in the election. The election attendance is 68 percent so far, which is the highest result since the 1998 election.
The Stan party (mayors and independent), the fourth member of the current ruling coalition, ranks third with a score of 10 %, followed by an extremely right -wing, eurosceptic party Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) with a result of 8 percent. [spadek z 13 proc. w ostatnich sondażach opinii publicznej]. The Pirate Party, a former member of the ruling coalition, which left it last year, obtained 7 percent.
The election surprise is a conservative-national and eurosceptic party Drivers themselves, which has a chance to enter parliament with a result of about 7 percent, despite the fact that during the campaign it remained slightly above the 5 % threshold. The extremely left -wing party was struggling!, Which had higher results in the polls, he probably will not reach the required threshold.
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Europe is concerned with anxiety in the Czech Republic, because Babisz promised to give up the initiative regarding the supply of ammunition for Ukraine, challenging NATO plans regarding the increase in defense expenditure and confront the European Commission regarding the green order.
Critics are afraid that if the billionaire regains power, the Czech Republic may become a new source of headache for the EU, next to the Hungarian Viktor Orban and Slovakia Robert Ficy.
– I think that if we look at his statements and his allies in Europe – such as Viktor Orban and what he did with Hungary – it [Babisz] will start pushing the Czech Republic to the margins – said Politico Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavsky.
“I don't want the Czech Republic to be on the margins of Europe, as it happened with Hungary or Slovakia,” Lipavsky added. – And now there is a huge difference between being part of a coalition of volunteers and not being part of it.
“The coalition government becomes a real problem”
Babisz will probably not get a majority in a 200-person lower chamber, which means that he will need the support of parliament to create a government. All main parties in the country excluded cooperation with Babisz After the election, leaving him no other choice but to turn to the extremes.
His probable partners are drivers who, like Babisz, do not want to lead the Czech Republic from the EU or NATO or SPD, who does not share this position. This perspective worried both analysts and political opponents.
Andrej Babisz, the leader of the ano movement, celebrates after arriving at the election party in Prague, the Czech Republic, October 4, 2025.EPA / Martin Divisek / PAP
Well, SPD and drivers belong to the Patriots group for Europe in the European Parliament, whose co -founder is Babisz.
– I do not think that the government led by Andrej Babisz, if it was a minority government, necessarily meant the same thing as we see in the case of Ficy in Slovakia or Orban in Hungary. The coalition government is becoming a real problem – Or even a minority government supported by communists, SPD or any of the parties that form these unnatural coalitions. This is where problems may arise – notes Otto Eibl, a political analyst at the Masaryk University in Brno.
Babisz, a billionaire and agricultural tycoon, who in his election campaign promised cheaper energy, higher pensions and putting the interests of the Czech Republic to the interests of Ukraine, already served as the premiere in 2017-2021. In 2023 he also ran for president, but lost to Petre Pavel.
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