Monitoring Desk
PRAGUE: Former top NATO official and army chief Petr Pavel won the Czech Republic’s presidential elections on Saturday with a promise to keep his country firmly anchored in the West and bridge society’s political differences.
Pavel running for office for the first time, won 58.3 percent of the vote with all voting districts reporting final results, defeating billionaire ex-Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a dominant but polarising force in Czech politics for ten years.
Czech Republic Politics
Petr Pavel, a social liberal and conveyed a message of unity when addressing his party supporters and media men at a Prague concert venue on Saturday as results showed he won the elections.
“Values such as dignity, truth, respect, and humility won,” he claimed. Pavel will assume office in March, replacing outgoing Milos Zeman.
