Czech far right scores big in elections, but struggles to form a government
(World News Cezch Republic)

As expected, the general election which took place in the Czech Republic on 20-21 October, was won by authoritarian, populist oligarch Andrej Babis. He is well known for his brutal business practices , his desire to curtail the role of parliament, and his urge to interfere with the media. Although he is currently being prosecuted for financial irregularities , he and his ANO party nonetheless won 29.64% of the popular vote. The usually right-of-centre Civic Democratic Party (ODS), some of whose top politicians recently moved sharply to the extreme right, came second with 11.32%. In third place was the anti-establishment Pirate Party, with 10.79%, while the Czech-Japanese-Korean activist...