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01/15/2023
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, has reiterated his support for Andrej Babiš to replace him. Speaking to the news outlet Blesk a day after Mr. Babiš and Petr Pavel reached the second round of presidential elections, Mr. Zeman said the vast majority of civilised countries did not have as head of state a soldier, referring to Mr. Pavel’s previous profession. He also said that the ex-Czech Army chief of staff was the government’s candidate.
Speaking on Czech Television, Mr. Pavel denied that he was the candidate of the government and said he was independent.
Some months back the Together alliance, comprising three of the five parties in the coalition, said they favoured Mr. Pavel or two other candidates who later failed to make the second round runoff.
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01/15/2023
Alongside elections for the presidency, 11 local referendums were held in Czechia in recent days, Czech Television reported. In Prague's Řepory, for example, more than 50 percent of citizens voted for the district to take steps against the construction of apartment buildings in the Prokopská and Dalejské údolí nature park.
In Horní Řasnice near Frýdlant in the Liberec Region residents rejected the construction of nine wind power plants by a narrow majority.
Meanwhile a referendum on replacing the Vřídelní colonnade in Karlovy Vary with a replica was not valid due to low participation. The same thing happened in Kladno, where a proposal to ban gambling did not get sufficient votes.
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01/15/2023
ANO chief Andrej Babiš was successful in the first round of voting for the Czech presidency in the same electoral districts where outgoing head of state Miloš Zeman picked up support five years ago, according to analysis by the Czech News Agency. There was 94.5 percent concurrence between their results, it said.
However, Mr. Babiš did not achieve the same gains as Mr. Zeman, who publicly supported him in the run-up to the vote.
Mr. Zeman picked up 38.56 percent of the vote in the first round in 2018, compared to 34.99 percent for Mr. Babiš.
The ANO chief did pick up a higher percentage of the vote than his own party. It garnered 1.5 million votes (for 29.64 percent) in the last general elections, 450,000 fewer than Mr. Babiš did in the first round.
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01/15/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 6 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are forecast to fall over to around freezing point in the following days.
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01/15/2023
Pre-election opinion polls around the Czech presidential elections underestimated the results of the two finalists. Not one survey published in 2023 predicted that Petr Pavel or Andrej Babiš would receive over 30 percent, though the former in the end received 35.4 percent of the vote and the latter 34.99 percent. Some polls last year did give Mr. Babiš over 30 percent.
Polling on third-placed Danuše Nerudová was also wide of the mark. She received 13.93 percent of the vote in the first round after some surveys had even suggested she might win.
The record turnout, which reached 68 percent, had been roughly forecast by some agencies.
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01/15/2023
Andrej Babiš’s tactic in the second round of Czech presidential elections will be to deter potential voters of his rival Petr Pavel, political scientists have told the Czech News Agency.
Former PM Babiš began his campaign for the runoff with an aggressive speech on Saturday evening, just hours after the results of the first round, highlighting allegations that Mr. Pavel did a military intelligence course in late Communist Czechoslovakia and comparing him to Vladimir Putin.
Political scientist Josef Mlejnek said Mr. Babiš was attempting to denigrate Mr. Pavel as much as possible in the eyes of Mr. Pavel’s own voters and the voters of some losing candidates.
Expert Miroslav Mareš said that Mr. Babiš’s address, in which he also said Mr. Pavel was the government’s candidate, was very confrontational and that he had already pulled out the big guns.
The second round takes place the weekend after next.
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01/14/2023
Petr Pavel was the clear favourite of Czechs who voted at the country’s embassies and consulates generals in other countries. Mr. Pavel took 56.31 percent of such votes, more than double the score of the second-placed Danuše Nerudová on 27.85 percent.
Pavel Fischer garnered 7.12 percent of the votes of Czechs casting their ballots outside the state, while Andrej Babiš received the backing of 4.28 percent of such electors.
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01/14/2023
Andrej Babiš made a strong attack on his rival for the post of Czech president, Petr Pavel, and his past at a news conference on Saturday early evening.
Among other assertions, Mr. Babiš said that currently the only president in Europe who had been a “Communist agent” was Russia’s Putin; this is a reference to allegations that Mr. Pavel took part in an intelligence training course in the late 1980s.
Both Mr. Babiš and Mr. Pavel were members of the Communist Party prior to the Velvet Revolution and the former denies allegations he worked with the secret police.
Mr. Babiš also told reporters that he expected that “kompro” (damaging materials) and doctored photographs would be used against him between now and the second round. In addition he said claims linking him to the KGB were likely to be made.
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01/14/2023
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, has called on the public to support ex-Czech Army chief of staff Petr Pavel in the second round of elections to the presidency.
Mr. Fiala said the election run-off in two weeks’ time was a battle of values, between democracy, respect for the constitution and pro-Western orientation, referring to Mr. Pavel, and populism, lies and pro-Russian tendencies, a swipe at Mr. Babiš.
The PM said the government would not actively take part in Mr. Pavel’s campaign.
Prior to the elections the Together group in the government coalition, of which Mr. Fiala is a member, said it favoured Mr. Pavel, Danuše Nerudová and Pavel Fischer.
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01/14/2023
Senator Pavel Fischer, who came fourth in the first round of Czech presidential elections on under 7 percent, has called on people to support Petr Pavel in the second round run-off in two weeks’ time.
Mr. Fischer said that it was necessary to unite forces against former prime minister Andrej Babiš. He said a decision was being made on placing Czechia in good hands, which Mr. Babiš did not represent.
Mr. Fischer said he would like to meet Mr. Pavel later on Saturday and offer him his support in the second round, including the billboards he has rented around the country.
Marek Hilser, who came sixth on less than 3 percent, also said he supported Mr. Pavel in the run-off.
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