UPDATE 4-Populist billionaire Babis's party on track to win Czech election
Published on: Oct. 4, 2025, 7:48 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Babis, who led a centre-left cabinet in 2017-2021, is an ally of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and teamed up with a number of far-right parties in the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament to challenge the mainstream direction of Europe's policies, including decarbonisation. He has rejected calls from SPD to leave the EU and NATO, but has said he would end the "Czech initiative" that has bought millions of artillery rounds from around the world for Ukraine with funding from Western donors.
