Czech ruling party narrowly loses vote, PM Babis may be out
Al Jazeera
PM Andrej Babis’s ANO party narrowly trailed behind the centre-right coalition which managed to win 27.78 percent of the vote.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has narrowly lost a cliffhanger general election to a centre-right alliance, final results showed, in a surprise reversal for the billionaire populist.
Preliminary results on Saturday showed Babis, 67, comfortably in the lead in line with opinion polls before the vote, but the margin eroded and disappeared as ballots from large cities were counted.
With more than 99.9 percent of votes counted, the Together alliance of the right-wing Civic Democrats, the centre-right TOP 09 and the centrist Christian Democrats had 27.78 percent of the vote, just ahead of Babis’s ANO party with 27.14 percent.
