Czech voters have chosen former General Petr Pavel, an ex-chairman of the NATO Military Committee, as their new president.
He was the clear winner in a two-day run-off vote, seeing off his populist challenger Andrej Babis.
The role of president in the Czech Republic is mostly ceremonial but still has influence in choosing ministers.
Pavel, who becomes the fourth president of the Czech Republic, is seen as supportive of Western military aid to Ukraine.
Al Jazeera’s Nadim Baba reports.
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As long as we dedollarized Euro dollars, they will colapsed. Europe is at the brink of colapsing as they are indebted and having to support these x soviet countries. Soviet Union would have to collapsed and because of this great burdened, it went broke.
Armchair economist here claims Europe is on the brink of collapse 😂 😂 😂
cope
europoor copium off the charts rn
You doesn’t have a slightest clue how many things we export. Go educate yourself before talking about the matter.
@Moravian Lion So goods are created out of thin air? Where does the raw materials that these “exports” are created from and the fuels that allow their creation in facilities built out of metals and minerals all come from?
Europoor copium bouta kick in hard.
So the Czechs voted for their own destruction.
@M S he is a liberal. They are not known to be strong
I highly disagree with this statement I believe that he will make a fine president, I doubt you understand everything he says and only listen to what media translates for you, which is just the bare minimum which would not be enough for anyone to decide upon something so important.
Yes, we voted because we have a democracy, not a despocracy with staged elections.
you have bad informations, Babis loosed this elections
@Ondřej Matějka 100% true
Uncertainty will be increase in Europe, Russia federation will not like pro western and ex NATO secretary as a new president of Czech Republic,
@happy 🥳🥳 Oh believe me the russians see through bs western media, I can see you dont but I guess you can live like that. They know the west wants to destroy them and their country and they wont let that happen
@Zdene Zoun another delusional one… dude? please? huh? i love Russia. country, culture, literature, arts, people… Russia is beautiful. i’ve friends and relatives who born or live at Russia. i just don’t love putin, just simple as that…
Another one who would gladly hand us over to Russians because he sees no worth in us. I am talking about you, Indian guy, not about the Czech President.
@Zdene Zoun He was EX NATO soldier so why would he not support NATO against evil Russia?
ruzzian terrorist state can kiss my free world a*s.
I’d literally rather die fighting than having to endure what our elders had to for over 40 years of oppression and unjustice.
If you were thinking Zelensky is the best comedian
This one here is another one
The real comedian was the other guy. He can use three different languages in one sentence, each with poor pronunciation and grammar.
Russia is evil
I love it when Russian vatniks use comedian as an insult. I def would prefer a former comedian as leader of a country than I would a KGB agent well versed in opression, corruption and torture.
@Bixby Snyder yeah, him exposed reality of this already falen empire ruled by old alcoholics (military) and politics completelly tied with mafia
Well, Zelenskyy is definitely comedian with biggest balls out there. He had essentially 3 choices:
A) Give up immediately, become a humble puppet to Putin (or getting executed right away)
B) Leave
C) *Stay and fight with the rest of the country*
If anything, you gave Zelenskyy a compliment.
As for Pavel, he’s not nearly as cringe as Babis when making public statements, so I fail to understand your point.
When the foundations crumble
what can the righteous achieve?
The defeat of Putin’s fascist regime of course!
Maybe now they too can have open borders and experience all the joys of not having a country of one’s own?
@BluuGinger41 if you love them so much why don’t you go to Vietnam? BTW have u seen what Sweden, UK, Germany or France looks like?
@Beautiful empathetic Liberal woman I will visit definitely. Don’t have to try, but you should probably get a little bit less. Btw you’re just a douchebag and there’s a reason why no Czech will ever agree with you. We are peace loving people and there’s no place for internet trolls in our hearts.
So good luck with someone else. I’ve done my due diligence to all people that make my life better, easier and just a little bit more interesting.
Peace.
@BluuGinger41 I hope you get blacked out of existence 👍
Ok.
@bro jwz2 Like I told this other people it’s not only me. I haven’t heard of a single person in Czech republic that would ever have problem with Vietnamese, nor in Slovakia (we were the same country before), but I can’t really talk about them since I know only about a dozen Slovaks closely. We live together with absolute harmony.
And we are not Sweden, UK, nor France.
Also, to that ignorant starting this comment section. Our president cannot influence our immigration policies. So he’s just a troll who’s sticking his nose into places he shouldn’t have and trying to evoke paranoia and fear in our minds and we had enough of that with mr. Babiš. That’s the end on my part.
Enjoy the end of the week-end. 😀
LEGITIMATE PROPHESIES!
SEVERAL SAINTS.
1- “False Prophet” is the Great Imposter…GUESS WHO?
HE IS PRECURSOR…
HELPING THE ANTICHRIST.
2- IN THE THIRD SECRET, OUR LADY OF FÁTIMA, PREDICTED “THERE WILL BE A MARTYR…MURDERED ON HILL IN ROME, HE WILL BE BEATEN”
POPE JOHN PAUL II THOUGHT IT WAS HIMSELF.
I DO NOT THINK IT WAS POPE JOHN PAUL II.
3- MORE CHAOS WILL HAPPEN TO EUROPE🐉
4- “A Great Monarch,” a descendant of Pepin, Merovingian King, (Frankish Kingdom. Modern day France, Belgium, West Germany).
HE will Unite the West & Europe.
5- ACCORDING TO ST. MALACHY, THE NEXT POPE WILL HAVE “PETER” for his name… I AM STILL WAITING FOR “ST. MALICHY’S” 112 POPES.
🙏
**PLEASE ASK these people that torture me, when Pope John Paul II died and the Cardinals were in the conclave, I kept telling everyone “Whoever is chosen as POPE, He is going to choose “PETER” FOR HIS NAME and what a surprise that “Joseph Ratzinger chose the NAME Benedict” DO YOU THINK THAT POPE BENEDICT WAS INSPIRED TO CHOOSE “BENEDICT”? HE WAS HOLIER THAN PEOPLE WANT TO RECOGNIZE.
FURTHERMORE, “LIGHTS IN THE SKY” WAS EVEN WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE… HAVE YOU HEARD IN THE NEWS THAT EVEN THE MILITARY HAVE REPORTED SEEING “UFO’S”
Good man who dislikes Putin so yayyyy for Ukraine 🎉
Czech people will pay price for what he choosen 😅😅😅
@Viktor Novomestsky lol it’s not Russian propaganda . As we speak the US is starving 20 million Afghans through their illegal genocidal sanctions and freezing of government funds which was called out by the UN . So too their illegal genocidal sanctions on Yemen and Syria. They are literally depriving people of food , medicine and basic necessities needed to live is an act of a genocide according to the UN genocide resolution. They did the same thing to Iraq in the 90s and killed 1 million , 500,000 of which were children. Secretary of State Madeline Albright the author of those sanctions went on TV and said the price was worth it . Many genocide scholars literally called those sanctions an act of genocide. The US has done 250 military interventions since 1991 according to its own congressional data . NATO is basically the US imperial client states. They are not a defensive organisation that’s why they bombed Libya who never attacked them. Just so they can steal their oil. You would know that if you actually read a history book 📕😒
@Padaj Silo i Nepravdo To “steal their oil”.. 😀😀 I told you I would not react, but with such stupid claims, I just can’t keep silent.. Do you really believe what you’ve just said?? USA is one of the biggest oil producers and can feed their demand with domestic production, but they will definitely go to Libya beause of oil.. Ahhhhhh.. I’m done, it has no point to argue with you – I’ve read your comments to other users and I got confirmed, that you’re a demagog and a very simple person, who has to be allways right in order to feel good…. So CIAO
@Viktor Novomestsky also US backed a genocide of 1 million leftists in Indonesia in 1966 , the CIA literally giving names of 5000 people to be executed, similarly they backed a genocide of 150,000 Mayan Indians in Guatemala in the 80s , 30,000 in Nicaragua , 5000 in Chile , 30,000 in Argentina. 1 million Iraqis though genocidal sanctions in the 90s and another million through their invasion and subjugation of Iraq . These are historical facts that western academics and media have admitted to not “Russian propaganda “ Literal evil empire and greatest threat to human life ever !
@Viktor Novomestsky lol Trump said they went to Syria to get their oil and National security advisor John Bolton admitted to doing a coup in Venezuela and also said US companies could make a lot of money off of Venezuelan oil “It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela,” -John Bolton. You really don’t know anything do you ?
@Viktor Novomestsky yeah name calling and running away but you can’t prove me wrong . Typical western shill 😔
Here in Asia a country named Bangladesh don’t like to say anything truth even they don’t like see anything in film which is “based on a true story” why? A lot of films Sensor Board didn’t released yet only for there political benefits. Please say something about Bangladesh. An anti suffrage democracy killer Government killing us roughly.
Let’s male sure russia and Puton crumble completely to the ground 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Puppet
Of who?
@ProvenVolcano his own belief
Globalist Puppet Wins election.
Happy days for CZE!
Well see….
@asd fgh you copy it everywhere plus who the f says apparatchiks in the west.. Go home RUZZIAN BOT, go where you cannot vote for more than 1 option (or svlclde).
True 🙂
@Zdene Zoun Bro are u okay? 🙂
Pro-West here should read Pro-Germany. Those ‘checks’ love the superiority of Deutschland.
no.
It just means he doesn’t lick Pootin, Pooh and other old men with little willy’s who don’t respect human rights.
@Dqtube I see … he’s got a complex of inferiority.
It was rigged we have sworn affidavits showing the other guy won 😂
Which what our resident Putinists would say, but don’t we all love the taste of Putinist tears tastes like victory.
Who really cares which side this insignificant country lies. It doesn’t matter because Russia has truly opened the eyes of several non-western countries in the world relative to the evil hegemony ambitions of the west.
Exactly. The rest of the world has woken up to the Evil of NATO 🇪🇺.
It was a choice between plague and cholera! Mr Pavel, a former Bolshevik, then later a NATO general! Well! The Czechs have no idea who they elected here, so naively! They must be suspicious when the Berlin and Brussels apparatchiks are so jubilant about the election!
Indeed, when the west praises your new politicians you know you f*cked up lmao. Sadly i cant vite yet so couldnt have really done anything 🙁
Are you czech? Not right? The. Stfu
@Marie Fričová Nevim no. They are both bad and choosing between them is hard, I like General pavel but there is a few things i dont like about him (mostly the liberal views and euro etc..) also when the west corrupt politicians praise who you voted in, that most of the time means disaster… I hope well be good
@Zdene Zoun Hearing Russian media outlets call Pavel voters “hospodští štamgasti” will always feel better than any western praise. The cope is hard.
@Zdene Zoun Now, tell me. Would you rather prefer, if all those corrupt, western politicians welcome such controversial billionaire like Babis?
I really fail to see your logic here.
From these two, it’s a definitely one of the easiest choices I ever had to made. Even if Pavel fails somehow along the way, at least with this guy, I just can’t see it coming from miles away like with Babis.
The kingdom of the “Anti Christ” (🇪🇺) is quickly taking shape. Soon the “son of perdition” will reveal himself in a time of trouble for the entire world.
Putting must me thrilled!
Who cares. This is about us. We’re sick of “but what russians will think of it”…!
Former chairman of the NATO military committee…how convenient…Time to buckle up Europe this is not gonna be pretty.
Can you elaborate?
@ProvenVolcano Can’t you see? He already tried
Fantastic news! As we strengthen the NATO alliance we can continue to ramp up our confrontation with new Russian despotism in Europe.
Cool. Maybe you guys can jump into a hot war with Russia.
@Robert DominicanRepublic One can hope
@Li F as someone who as experienced war… it’s very last thing you want for your fellow country men.
NATO wants to destroy Europe. Look at their track record of destabilizing the middle east then causing mass immigration into Europe. Indigenous Europeans will be a minority in Europe in the next 50 years because of this
Would you rather dissolve NATO alliance and end up like Ukraine?
You remember Ukraine got from ruzzia security guarantees, right? Well, seems ruzzia doesn’t remember anymore.
Pavel seems to be exactly that type of *calm* and *rational* we so desperately needed in the office. Till now, we had only careerist that were painful to watch and listen during public debates.
NATO won’t attack ruzzia and ruzzians won’t attack NATO. That doesn’t mean we should let them mindlessly plunder our fellow country men.
NATO MUST BE NUKED!
Outsiders don’t understand the horrible impact Ruzzian occupation has had on Eastern/Central Europe. For us this is decolonization just like African/Asian countries did from Britain/France.
@Aurora thanks, you don’t know how much this election meant for us, since A. Babiš represented the oligarchic populism with orientation for Russia. It is nice to have some president who’s backing moral values.
@BluuGinger41
Oh, I followed the elections in 2021 and I am quite aware of Babiš oligarch-connections in Russia as well as in Hungary and Serbia (the Serbian president Vučić is the prolonged arm of the Kremlin in the Western Balkans). So, I am very, very happy for your sake that you finally got rid of Babiš and Zeman. Petr Pavel was much loved within the NATO as I can recall and I don’t doubt that he will be a steadfast leader for your country. 🙏
@Aurora Yeah, I know I’ve attended course Contemporary Balkans at my university and our professor mentioned all the bizzare things about Vučić and how the current prime minister is basically just a way for him to be still in a power…
Anyway it’s so nice that you care about our politics, we have our hopes up. And I wish Serbia and Hungary get their non-oligarchic governments in place soon, so they can get from the post-communist shadow that overlooks all the past socialist/communist states.
Best wishes, and one last thanks. ❤
the idea of western Europe is dependent on exploitation of third world. such ideas need to be crushed by third world
@BluuGinger41
I agree with everything you wrote. All the best to you! 🌹
Russian occupation is finally coming to an end in former Eastern Europe. I’ve been waiting for this since the beginning of the 90s when the USSR collapsed, but wasn’t entirely defeated until now. So glad that Eastern and Central Europe finally is getting rid of Russian influence. Congratulations to all Czech people, you’ve got an amazingly strong and dignified president! Love from Sweden.
A former Moscovv’s and today’s VVashington’s puppet now also became a Brussel’s puppet…
Všichni blázni, jen já letadlo
Voting in generals never turn out well because of the very nature of generals.
only in countries which are not democratic
So, voting in educated, well developed country with strong democratic foundations is bad, because the outcome is not to your, personal liking?
Shocking
He did not recieved training in military inteligence when it was ruled by communists! general Pavel finished his studies in 1991, the communist party have fallen in 1989.
Pity thats stupid people sont See thats Nato = NAZIS
ready fr dance of devil
The best news for our country. i am do happy❤
Hnus toto. Už dejte pokoj z tim hadem
Skvělá čeština
that guy looks badass
He looks like a serial killer
People here really hating on Petr Pavel not knowing anything about about czech politics😂 I can´t even imagine what disaster would come if Babiš was elected
Just your usual downward spiral of mutual trust, values and human decency.
Konečně po 20 letech prezident, který není z žádné politické strany. Konečně… prezident. 🙂