The Czech election was framed by some as a contest between constitutional democracy and populism, with Russia’s war in Ukraine looming in the background.
In a separate domestic case, a Prague court cleared him of fraud charges last month, ruling that transferring one of his companies to his wife and children to make it eligible for E.U. small-business subsidies “is not a crime.”Pavel presented voters with a very different sort of choice.
He was chief of the general staff of the Czech army from 2012 to 2015 and chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2015 to 2018. That’s what he tried to do during the inter-round campaign, which was intensely hostile, rife with disinformation, and largely dominated by one topic: the war. In a nod to how many Czechs have been unnerved by the fighting just beyond the European Union’s border, his campaign billboards promoted him as: “Leading with experience and calm in difficult times.”Babis, meanwhile, condemned the war while also casting Pavel as a warmonger. His billboards claimed that “The General doesn’t believe in peace” and promised: “I won’t drag the Czech Republic into war. I’m a diplomat, not a soldier.
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