Ruling coalition accuses ANO leader of fear marketing

The ruling coalition has slammed ANO leader Andrej Babiš for undermining the government’s foreign policy and presenting a security risk through his pacifist statements. At a special session of the lower house, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the opposition party should make it clear whether it stands with the free West or with Putin.  Interior Minister Vít Rakušan accused Babis of using fear marketing to win political support ahead of the European elections and suggested that Babiš is playing, albeit unwittingly, the role of a Trojan horse in a hybrid war.

While the opposition ANO party originally backed all of the government’s initiatives in support of Ukraine - military, financial and humanitarian - its leader has increasingly started talking about the need to support peace negotiations.