Czech Republic: Who is Babis, the man who hopes to be PM?

There is another report on the Czech elections and Babis on DW (pointing in the same direction as @petrescatraian@libranet.de’s comment in this thread if I am not mistaken):

… The country is expected to shift toward right-wing populism and all that comes with it: euroskepticism, pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian positions, and agitation against refugees, the LGBTQ+ community and green policies … The undisputed frontrunner going into the election is the ANO party of right-wing populist ex-premier and billionaire Andrej Babis …

Some observers see the threat as real: “One of Putin’s dreams could soon be realized,” wrote Petr Honzejk of the Czech national daily newspaper Hospodarske noviny. “Should ANO come to power — whether on its own or in cooperation with the SPD, Stacilo! or the Motorists — our country will stop its defense against Russian disinformation and hybrid attacks.” …

A quick reminder that recent week Czech Researchers identified nearly 300 Pro-Russian TikTok accounts ahead of elections

"Czechia — against the green madness."
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When Babis appears on the campaign trail, he generally speaks out against "the system" and "corrupt politicians," saying that the political establishment is incapable, bureaucratic and inefficient, that it disregards the people, divides up posts among its own, lies, cheats and wastes money.

Ahhh, sounds so familiar. All the former corrupt politicians are now parading with their thing and are riding the far-right wave that's currently sweeping the West lead by the Heritage Foundation, MAGA and the likes. Of course it's the progressives™ that led the country into chaos with their NGOs introducing their green policies and the LGBTQ agenda. They are the system that needs to be fought against!!! Not , having links with both the former Communist Parties (sometimes even being former members of them), Russia and/or China and .

Like, we also had a similar Babis in Romania - and his name is Victor Ponta. Who was a PM from the Social Democrat Party and quit after large scale protests when a fire broke out in a night club who didn't get the autorizations legally. And who said that "I will be against the Roșia Montană gold extraction project as a deputy in the parliament, but as a PM I have to respect the national interest" (of bringing full profit to a private company extracting the gold and leaving a centuries-old settlement in a deep cyanide pit?). And who plagiarized his PHD thesis. And who now is wearing a MAGA hat in public and spinning around the Trump rhetoric (even running for president again last summer as an independent and getting 1 mil.+ votes).

Yeah, these are the brave anti-system fighters of Eastern Europe, heroically resisting the Brussels&Globalist assault.

Massive asshole. Thats who he is.