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Retired general Petr Pavel and former Prime Minister Andrej
Babis will advance to a second round in the Czech presidential race
in a fortnight’s time, according to official results published on
Saturday, Trend
reports citing Xinhua.
Both Pavel and Babis were predicted to win considerable votes in
relevant polls. They were almost neck-and-neck with 35.36 percent
and 35.02 percent of the vote respectively, according to official
results when ballots from over 99.7 percent of precincts were
counted.
Voter turnout was over 68 percent in the first round held on
Friday and Saturday, which was about six percentage points higher
than that in the 2018 election.
Pavel is a retired army general and served as head of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee. He is one
of three candidates endorsed by the ruling coalition
government.
Babis, the head of the Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO)
party, is a Slovak-born businessman and one of the wealthiest
Czechs. He served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021.
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