{"id":6862,"date":"2017-10-22T05:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2017-10-23T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T04:28:00","slug":"czech-donald-trump-wins-landslide-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/10\/22\/czech-donald-trump-wins-landslide-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Czech Donald Trump&#8221; Wins Landslide Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/10\/22\/czech-donald-trump-wins-landslide-victory\/andrej_babis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6863\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/andrej_babis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/andrej_babis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/andrej_babis-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic\u2019s parliamentary election.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Czech Donald Trump&#8221; Wins Landslide Victory<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11208\/czech-election-babis-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | October 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic\u2019s parliamentary election \u2014 by a landslide \u2014 making the \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d billionaire businessman the main contender to become prime minister after coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>With all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novinky.cz\/volby\/snemovna-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">votes counted<\/a>, Babis\u2019s anti-establishment party ANO (which stands for \u201cAction of Dissatisfied Citizens\u201d and is also the Czech word for \u201cyes\u201d) won nearly 30% \u2014 almost three times its closest rival \u2014 in elections held on October 20. The Eurosceptic Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the anti-establishment Czech Pirates Party and the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) came second, third and fourth, with around 11% each.<\/p>\n<p>The Communists came in fifth with 7.8%. The Social Democrats, the center-left establishment party that finished first in the previous election, came in sixth with just 7.2%. The Christian Democrats, the center-right establishment party, won 5.8%, just enough to qualify for seats in parliament. In all, nine parties competed in the election.<\/p>\n<p>The election outcome, the result of popular discontent with established parties, is the latest in a recent wave of successes for European populists, including in Austria and Germany. The populist ascendancy highlights a shifting political landscape in Europe where runaway multiculturalism and political correctness, combined with a massive influx of non-assimilable migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, have given rise to a surge in support for anti-establishment protest parties.<\/p>\n<p>Babis\u2019s victory will also strengthen the role of the Visegrad Group (V4), a political alliance of four Central European states \u2014 the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia \u2014 committed not only to resisting mass migration, but also to opposing the continued transference of national sovereignty to the European Union. A stronger V4 will accentuate the divisions between the pro-EU states of Western Europe and the increasingly Eurosceptic states of Central and Eastern Europe. The European Union consequently will struggle to maintain an outward semblance of unity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11208\/czech-election-babis-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic\u2019s parliamentary election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[139,48],"tags":[140,129,195,211],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech-republic","category-islam-in-europe","tag-czech-republic-2","tag-european-union-2","tag-migration-crisis","tag-visegrad-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Czech Donald Trump&quot; 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