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Mon 10:51 pm +01:00, 30 Sep 2024Former PM Babiš: Czech government ‘dreams about war with Russia’
Former Czech PM’s opposition ANO party is leading the polls ahead of the country’s 2025 parliamentary elections.
Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš accused the current Czech government of “dreaming about war with Russia” in a controversial interview with pro-Kremlin outlet Parlamentní listy.
“The government of [current Prime Minister Petr] Fiala dreams of war with Russia, probably with the F-35s, which are due to arrive sometime in the next 11 years,” said Babiš, referring to the Czech defense ministry’s purchase of American fighter jets.
Babiš previously called the jets “useless,” adding that Czechia “doesn’t need them.”
Fiala’s government has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion, and hosts 380,000 Ukrainian refugees, making for one of the highest per capita numbers (about 1:30) in the EU. The country has also secured 300,000 artillery shells from outside the EU to fulfill the bloc’s promise to supply armaments to Ukraine.
Babiš, a populist who recently co-founded the far-right Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, also said that Fiala’s center-right government is “the biggest threat to state security,” and slammed it for increasing taxes and for exacerbating Europe’s cost-of-living crisis, as well as for EU migration and the bloc’s asylum pact.
Babiš has been vocally anti-government since his liberal Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) party lost the country’s 2021 parliamentary election. In January 2023 he unsuccessfully ran for president on a platform of avoiding war with Russia, a line he continues to pursue ahead of Czechia’s 2025 parliamentary elections.
According to the latest polls, Babiš and ANO have, with 33 percent, the highest support of all the parties ahead of the 2025 vote. Fiala’s Civic Democratic Party (ODS) has only 14.5 percent. The current coalition — made up of the center-right three-party Together (Spolu) alliance, along with the progressive Pirates and Mayors alliance — would in total have 40.5 if all parties remain in the coalition.
CORRECTION: This article has been updated to clarify the poll position of the current government coalition.
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