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Populist billionaire’s party wins big in Czech Republic
AP ^ | 10/22/17 | KAREL JANICEK

Posted on 10/22/2017 3:32:59 AM PDT by markomalley

The centrist ANO movement led by populist Andrej Babis decisively won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election Saturday in a vote that shifted the country to the right and paved the way for the euroskeptic billionaire to become its next prime minister.

With all votes counted, the Czech Statistics Office said ANO won in a landslide, capturing 29.6 percent of the vote, or 78 of the 200 seats in the lower house of Parliament.

“It’s a huge success,” the 63-year-old Babis told supporters and journalists at his headquarters in Prague.

Babis is the county’s second-richest man, with a media empire including two major newspapers and a popular radio station.

Although he was a finance minister in the outgoing government until May, many Czechs see him as a maverick outsider with the business acumen to shake up the system. With slogans claiming he can easily fix the country’s problems, he is, for some, the Czech answer to U.S. President Donald Trump.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: babis; czech; trump

1 posted on 10/22/2017 3:32:59 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

czech-mate!


2 posted on 10/22/2017 3:40:04 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: markomalley

My congratulations to Mr. Babis, and I wish him well in his bid to regain the sovereignty of the Czech Republic.

It has been a theme within YouTube, that the revitalization and sovereignty of the European nations would emerge not from “The old Western Europe”, but rather from those States that have been through so much, with a more solid national identity.


3 posted on 10/22/2017 4:20:27 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: markomalley

This is remarkable, and yet another shot across the bow of globalism and the EU. I will follow this story with great interest. As in the US, there will be entrenched special interests who will fight this man tooth and nail. Maybe our man Trump can take note of how Babis responds (and vice-versa).
And the beat(down) goes on


4 posted on 10/22/2017 4:34:50 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: markomalley

“With all votes counted, the Czech Statistics Office said ANO won in a landslide, capturing 29.6 percent of the vote, or 78 of the 200 seats in the lower house of Parliament.”

Winning a landslide with just 29.6% of the vote is a product of the fractured democracies that come with proportional representation. In the Czech Republic they use proportional representation and in their case it means a party only needs to get 5% of the vote to get seats in their parliament.


5 posted on 10/22/2017 5:45:46 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: markomalley

The Eastern European nations should withdraw from the European Union and establish a union of their own. What irony that long after Western Europe has descended into a Third World hell-hole, Easter Europe will remain ascendant and healthy.


6 posted on 10/22/2017 5:46:11 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Those who want to repeat history try to prevent others from knowing it.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Drain the swamp, Babis. Don’t stop winning.


7 posted on 10/22/2017 7:28:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Savage Beast

Yes. Secede and join with Orthodox and Eurasian world.


8 posted on 10/22/2017 10:25:20 AM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: OrangeHoof

Love it :D


9 posted on 10/22/2017 12:28:42 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Savage Beast
I would love to buy an ETF or Mutual Fund a basket of the 12 or 13 States that are members of TSI especially if they tell the EU in the words of Jeff Kuhner to "blank off"...


10 posted on 10/22/2017 5:43:44 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: markomalley

The former Czech folks have had enough of the Rat party politics and Pubbie Rinos so now they want the Populist movement. I am all in.

11 posted on 10/22/2017 6:24:35 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: markomalley; Impy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne

The Czechs now have their own Trumpski!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loving it.

Q: What do you call a drunken Eastern European who gets thrown out of a bar?

A: A Bounced Czech...

Baddabing (try the veal! Here till Tuseday!)


12 posted on 10/22/2017 7:34:52 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker

“Veal. It’s what’s for dinner.”


13 posted on 10/22/2017 7:55:56 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs


14 posted on 10/22/2017 8:01:31 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: Impy; NFHale

When I heard that, I wanted to put on a cowboy hat and lasoo me some cattle.


15 posted on 10/22/2017 8:11:12 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: markomalley

Dear Lord, I hope and pray this is the start of a tidal wave of European re-awakening that will lead to the death of the EU and a return to sense on the Old Continent.

And yes I do pray for the same thing for America.


16 posted on 10/22/2017 8:46:47 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: markomalley

What is his position on allowing hordes of homicidal savages into Europe?


17 posted on 10/23/2017 4:22:59 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Savage Beast

Good plan.


18 posted on 10/23/2017 4:25:57 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: markomalley
“It’s a huge success,” the 63-year-old Babis told supporters

Didn't they mean to type "yuge"?

19 posted on 10/23/2017 4:31:57 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: taildragger
YES!

Eastern Europe can remain free, prosperous, healthy, and ascendant as the Western European Nations continue their slide into Third World hell-holes, under the weight of their own Decadence!

What happens when the Western Europeans finally wake up, realize what they have done to themselves, and try to flee to the East? Be careful! They will bring their decadent suicidal ideas with them.

20 posted on 10/23/2017 8:15:24 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Those who want to repeat history try to prevent others from knowing it.)
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