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Czech Former PM Babis Pledges Cheap Energy, Lower Pension Age in Bid to Win Back Power
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In the beginning of October there will be parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic. Former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his right-wing populist party ANO (Czech for "yes") are clearly in the lead in all polls. Recently, ANO has presented its electoral program. In it, the party promises a better life to all Czechs, but does not explain how it wants to finance it. Czech commentators are critical of the ANO program.
Czech former PM Babis pledges cheap energy, lower pension age in bid to win back power
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - The main Czech opposition party ANO, headed by business tycoon and former prime minister Andrej Babis, pledged on Thursday to cap energy prices, lower the pension age and reduce taxes for individuals and companies as it launched a final push to win back power next month. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura (ODS) has launched into the election promises of the ANO movement, which it presented to the public in Ostrava on Thursday. According to him, it is a crazy plan that will destroy public finances and lead the Czech Republic to bankruptcy.
There was about half an hour left on Thursday before the start of the big event of the ANO movement, at which it presented its long-awaited program. The space around the stage in the industrial environment of the Dolní Vítkovice complex was still almost empty when Andrej Babiš suddenly came out. He was not alone, his marketers Aneta Zicklerová and Viktorie Kalivodová walked next to him. To keep quiet, they moved a few dozen meters away from the …
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