A retired army general has defeated a populist billionaire in a runoff vote to choose the new president of the Czech Republic.
“Foreign policy is his strong point,” Petr Just, an analyst from the Metropolitan University Prague, said. Just noted that Pavel's NATO experience and views would “boost” the country's Western leanings.
Otherwise, the president has little executive power since Czechia is run by a government chosen and led by the prime minister. “Your victory is a victory of hope, of hope that decency and honesty is not a weakness but a power that could lead to victory even in politics,” Caputova said. Pavel said he planned to travel to Slovakia and Ukraine for his first foreign trips as president, and also to Poland to assure President Andrzej Duda that his country fully respects its NATO commitments and the alliance’s principle of collective defense.
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