The Czech Republic’s billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis appears to have lost his grip on power in Saturday’s election amid Pandora Papers scandal.
Oct.9 (UPI) — The Czech Republic’s billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis appeared to have lost his grip on power in Saturday’s election amid Pandora Papers scandal. His ruling populist party failed to win a majority over the two opposition alliances in a close election according to preliminary results, which means they can join forces to form a government and force him out of office, The Washington Pos t and CNN reported. The tycoon and ally of Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban was edged out by the center-right alliance Spolu with 27.7% of the ballots with 99.8% of the votes counted. Babis‘ ANO party had 27.2% of the votes and the centrist PirStan coalition had 15.
