Foreign Policy: Likely Next Czech Prime Minister Will Get Along Great With Trump

Náš ředitel Vladimír Bartovic pro Foreign Policy komentoval nedávné oznámení premiéra Bohuslava Sobotky o demisi koaličního kabinetu - tedy kroku, namířeného proti ministrovi financí Andreji Babišovi.

Babis is “definitely illiberal,” said Vladimir Bartovic of the Prague-based EUROPEUM, a think tank. Sobotka, he explained, is a typical western style social democrat who values values. In contrast, “Babis is a technocrat of power.” That doesn’t mean he’d necessarily pull a Viktor Orban and set up an illiberal regime as in Hungary. “But his motivation is to have power, and to preserve it.”

He has a tendency to build a kind of a ‘cult of leadership’ around himself, he is considerably outspoken — or as he puts it, ‘proudly politically incorrect’, and he has challenged the existing political system of traditional left and right parties.

If that doesn’t sound familiar enough, Babis has also “been a prolific critic of how the conventional political parties have handled the European migration crisis and the continuously most delicate matter, state corruption."

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