Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš won a parliamentary election on Saturday in a political comeback that puts the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia , which have taken a pro-Russian stance.

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With the votes from almost 98 per cent of polling station counted by the Statistics Office, Babiš's ANO (YES) movement captured 35 per cent of the vote followed by the pro-Western coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala with 23.0 per cent. The coalition defeated him in the 2021 election.

The two-day election filled 200 seats in the lower house of the Czech parliament. A group of mayors known as STAN, also a member of Fiala's government, had 11.1 per cent of the vote, with another ally of Fiala, the Pirates party, reaching 8.7 per

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