A billionaire businessman with an anti-establishment message has won this weekend’s parliamentary election in the Czech Republic.<br /><br />Maverick tycoon Andrej Babis has drawn comparisons with Donald Trump and like the US President, he doesn’t mind ruffling feathers.<br /><br />In victory, however, Babis downplayed his Eurosceptic reputation.<br /><br /> “We have to fight for our interests,” he said. <br /><br />“We’re a firm part of the European Union. We’re a firm part of NATO. I would be grateful if some people would stop being afraid that we are oriented to the East.”<br /><br />But he added that the EU needs to reflect on why Great Britain is leaving the bloc.<br /><br />Czech vote winner Babis wants active EU role, not favoring government with extremists https://t.co/qVjdpGZUYW pic.twitter.com/HiUypiFp2K— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 21 octobre 2017<br /><br />Despite an emphatic victory for his centrist ANO movement, Babis will need partners to form a majority.<br /><br />But fraud charges which he denies and other scandals linked to the 63-year-old have led some potential coalition allies to rule themselves out.<br /><br />with Reuters<br />
