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Czech lower house elects far-right party leader as speaker
Czech far-right leader Tomio Okamura won the post of speaker of the lower house in a vote on Wednesday, the first appointment of populist billionaire Andrej Babis's newly formed coalition with fringe right-wing groups.
Tomio Okamura is regarded as ultra-right and had called for a NATO exit in the election campaign. Now he was elected as the new President of Parliament of the Czech Republic.
One month after the parliamentary election in the Czech Republic, the far-right politician Tomio Okamura was elected as the President of Parliament. The 53-year-old head of the far-right party SPD received 107 votes on Wednesday.
The leader of the Czech far-right SPD (Freedom and Direct Democracy) party, Tomio Okamura, has been elected speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament.
He will form a government with the party of billionaire Babis and the party of motorists - His party also called for a referendum on the country's exit from the EU
The party of the billionaire Andrej Babis was the winner of the parliamentary election in the Czech Republic. However, the president of the parliament, Tomio Okamura, becomes a man who is still on the right. So far that the judiciary is investigating for incitement to the people.
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