Czech Prime Ministerial candidate Andrej Babis attempt to reassure Western Countries, but apprehends Coalition Complications.

Oct 2025 : Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, have secured a dramatic political comeback in the October 04 Parliamentary Elections, with 34.6% votes amidst an electoral turnover of 68.9%.

He is very much optimistic while being confident that he will be successful in reassuring the West over his commitment to the EU and NATO; while apprehending about to enter a coalition with even-more Eurosceptic partners to form a government. “We want to save Europe, and we are clearly pro-European and pro-NATO“, Babis told reporters amid concerns he could push the Czech Republic closer toward Russia, following the path of European Union majors Hungary and Slovakia, fuelling opposing further military aid to Ukraine.

Prague has acted as a major supporter of Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion of 2022 and has taken in thousands of war refugees, actions Babis has often vocally opposed.

But, with an estimated 81 seats in the 200-member parliament, ANO would not have a majority, meaning potentially complex efforts to find coalition partners. Many analysts have said coalition talks may include the far-right SPD, which has called for the Czech Republic to withdraw from both the EU and NATO. It received 7.6% of the vote, likely to give it about 15 seats. Moreover, The Motorists, a small opposition party that has voiced opposition to many EU policies, also managed to pass the threshold and enter parliament for the first time, after receiving 6.8%, with an estimated 13 seats.

Current Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s centre-right, pro-West Together grouping finished second with 23.3% obtaining 52 seats, while its coalition partner STAN had 11.2% with 22 seats, and the liberal Pirates party had nearly 09% with 18 seats.

Jan Machacek, a foreign policy adviser to Czech President Petr Pavel has voiced concern, “If the government is dependent on the position or on the support of the SPD, it’s going to be very complicated”, as election results were officially disclosed. He further narrated that this would give rise to a very dangerous situation for foreign policy, because the SPD is extremist, sharply anti-Ukraine and EU, demonstrating to be a pro-Russian party.

While, celebrating what he called a “historic result”, Babis said he would seek to form a single-party minority government and would hold talks with the SPD and Motorists on securing their support for it. The 71-year-old Babis has often employed strong Eurosceptic rhetoric but has regularly ruled out withdrawing from the EU or NATO. He has co-founded the far-right Patriots for Europe bloc in the European Parliament with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was overwhelmed with the election results asserting that, Truth has prevailed! Which is indeed good news for Europe.

While not directly opposing further assistance to Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion, Babis again said he was not in favour of Prague’s continuing leadership of a 2024 initiative to provide ammunition for Ukraine. “If there is a war, no one should make money because of the war. It is the initiative which NATO should be organising”, he told reporters. “We are helping Ukraine through the EU; the EU is helping Ukraine, and it is in the European budget. We are paying a lot of money to the European budget, and this is the way we will continue to help”.

In 2024, 16 European countries, led by the Czech Republic, has set up the ad hoc coalition to buy artillery rounds for Ukraine. The aim was to supply as many as 800,000 large-calibre shells to boost the Ukrainian war effort. Despite claims that the initiative has been a success, it faces fierce criticism from the Czech opposition and Ukrainian NGOs over alleged profiteering, political favouritism, poor quality, and supply delays. Babis also repeated his objections to Ukraine’s immediate membership in the EU. He had affirmed, “We are not prepared for EU membership. We have to end the war first. Of course, we can cooperate with Ukraine, but we are not ready for the EU”.

President To Select the Next Prime Minister –

Under the constitution, President Petr Pavel will chose the next Prime Minister and said he would start talks with party leaders. Pavel, who had earlier defeated Babis in a 2023 presidential run-off election, met the billionaire ANO leader last week to discuss conflicts of interest regarding his roles as a politician and businessman. “I have promised Mr. President to meet him and show him a solution that will be in line with Czech and European laws“, Babis said.

Along with charges of conflicts of interest, Babis is one of the country’s richest people, with considerable stakes in agribusiness and media, who has been accused with legal disputes and accusations of EU subsidy fraud.

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