ANO MP Resigns Party Membership Over Alleged Recordings Ordering Killing of Dog

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The ANO movement is actually very lucky that the affair of MP Balaštíková culminated in the revelation that she wanted to order the killing of a dog. There was no point in waiting. ANO politicians, who had previously chosen a wait-and-see reaction in the style of "If it is confirmed, then ... but you have a camp and a dosimeter", now had it clear. Especially if they are dog lovers themselves. While Andrej Babiš "demanded an explanation" the day …

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I was born with a love for nature, land and animals, said Margita Balaštíková, a member of parliament from the ANO movement, in an interview in 2021. But now the Seznam Zprávy server has come with information that she was supposed to use political power - as part of a stormy divorce - and try to kill a dog belonging to...

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Margita Balaštíková orders the contract killing of her ex-husband's girlfriend's dog on a secret recording, as described by Seznam Zprávy. Andrej Babiš immediately excluded this MP from the autumn elections due to the scandal. TMBK collage.

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MP Margita Balaštíková has presented herself as an animal lover in the past and for years ran a stud farm in Napajedly in the Zlín region. Due to the scandal involving a recording in which she talks about killing her ex-husband's partner's dog during a heated divorce, she angered Andrej Babiš and her party colleagues and ultimately will not run for the Chamber of Deputies, and has also suspended her membership in the ANO movement.