Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.
I wrote in another thread that in 2021, when Babiš was Czech prime minister, he backed Hungary PM Orbán’s anti-LGBT law.
Just yesterday, thousands attended the banned Pride march in the Hungarian city of Pécs, showing anti-government signs such as “Hungary is a dictatorship”.
Maybe we see similar ‘events’ soon in the Czech Republic, while right-wing pro-Russian groups will demonize the West as it is now the case in Hungary?
For now it seems the Czech Republic made a step or two toward a dictatorial far-right regime like Russia’s or China’s, so the fight for democracy will intensify.