Former army chief and high NATO official Petr Pavel won the Czech Republic's presidential election on Saturday with a pledge to keep the country firmly anchored in the West and bridge society's political differences.
running for office for the first time, won 58.3% of the vote with all voting districts reporting final results, defeating billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis, a dominant but polarising force in Czech politics for a decade.
Zeman had pushed for closer ties with Beijing and also with Moscow until Russia invaded Ukraine, and Pavel's election will mark a sharp shift.The result of the election will only become official when published in a legal journal on Tuesday, but the outcome of the poll was already clear on Saturday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy congratulated Pavel on his election on Twitter and said he looked forward to close cooperation.Pavel has backed keeping the central European country of 10.5 million firmly in the European Union and NATO military alliance, and supports the government's continued aid to Ukraine.
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