After taking a distinctly anti-China foreign policy stance during his campaign, Czech President-elect Petr Pavel has angered Beijing after becoming the first EU leader to acknowledge Taiwan’s legitimacy by direct communication with its president.
Following his decisive victory over Andrej Babiš, the 61-year-old Petr Pavel told supporters that “values like truth, dignity, respect and modesty have won.”
“I have always been a supporter of correct economic relations with the Russian Federation, especially due to the supply of relatively cheap energy raw materials. But there are situations when economic interests must give way to security interests.”
Three personalities from the Center to the Right are likely to reach the second round: former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, General Petr Pavel, and economist Danuše Nerudová.
Demonstrators called for the government’s resignation, sanctions against Russia to be scrapped, and for the country’s withdrawal from NATO, the EU, UN, and the WHO.
Those at the conference were urged to embrace “disruptive conservatism” rooted in Christianity and the sovereign nation—a kind of conservatism that presently is not recognized by the ruling elites.
The latest polling data appears to be indicative of rising discontent over the ruling center-Right coalition’s economic and foreign policy positions related to the Russo-Ukraine war.
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