PRAGUE - Former army chief Petr Pavel won the Czech Republic’s presidential election on Saturday after a campaign featuring strong backing for Nato and the European Union and support for aid to Ukraine.
Czech presidents do not have many day-to-day duties but they pick prime ministers and central bank heads, have a say in foreign policy, are powerful opinion makers, and can push the government on policies. Mr Babis, 68, a combative business magnate who heads the biggest opposition party in parliament, had attacked Mr Pavel as the government’s candidate.
The result of the election will only become official when published in a legal journal on Tuesday, but the outcome of the poll was already clear on Saturday. A career soldier, Mr Pavel joined the army in Communist times, was decorated with a French military cross for valour during peacekeeping in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and later rose to lead the Czech general staff and become chairman of Nato’s military committee for three years before retiring in 2018.
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