“Tomorrow I will tell the truth,” Andrei Babis announced on social networks a few days ago. The mocker then asked why the Czech Prime Minister did not always do this. The head of government in Prague has enough explanations.
Regarding the “Stork’s Nest” incident in which the EU actually provides subsidies for small and medium-sized enterprises, it flowed into the Agrofert von Babiš Group in 2008. Therefore, the Czech police proposed to prosecute the Prime Minister at the end of May. In addition, the EU Prosecutor’s Office is now also processing allegations that Babiš allegedly had conflicts of interest regarding Brussels subsidies during his tenure as finance minister in 2014 and 2017 as prime minister.
The next day, Babis kept his promise and opened the package. He published a 450-page book, which Czechs can download for free from the Internet. However, in it, the head of government does not want to argue for his own mistakes. Rather, it should be about three months before the parliamentary elections to let compatriots know what qualities he has.
“Everything we do for the people is there,” Babis declared in the introduction. All his meetings with the president, head of government, and even the emperor are recorded. And he, Babiš, personally played double-digit billions for the Czech Republic in Brussels. The title of the book also says it all: “Share it before they banned it.” He stated that the most politically powerful people in the country and the owners of multiple media are risking being censored by jealous opponents.
Babiš’s critics also mobilized
However, from Babis’s perspective, it is understandable why entrepreneurial politicians do everything possible to mobilize possible supporters. Because Babiš’s critics also appeared on the book market in large numbers. Anyone entering the famous “Luxor” bookstore on Wenceslas Square in Prague will immediately see a tall book tower with a bestseller by journalist Jaroslav Kmenta.
He wrote about Babiš’s “Palermo” and the negligence he accused the prime minister of-starting from his conflict of interest, through purportedly neglected pandemic management reforms, which made the Czech Republic the number of people infected in Europe Most countries fall in 2020. The country’s political literature does not seem to require scrutiny. On the contrary, it is usually for or against someone.
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The question is whether Andrej Babiš and his brochure represent himself Campaign The influence that can benefit him is so great that he can continue to govern with his ANO party. Jiří Pehe, a political scientist in Prague from FAZ, said: “Babiš can only directly influence a few voters through this book, because most people don’t read it—even if it’s free.” But: Babiš controls two daily newspapers and several TV channels. These media will spread the news that Babish has written a book, in which he argues that most of the work he has done so far has been great. In addition, Pecher said, “His critics also talk about this book, which seems to be helpful to him.”
Is Babis taking the route of criticizing the EU?
The news portal Seznam Zprávy criticized the head of government’s book. Whose commentator wrote that the book was “full of intimidation tactics.” He referred to the statement on immigration policy. “No! No!!! No!!! There are no quotas. Rejection of forced reallocation. No immigrants. Not at all,” is the roughest of them.In other EU member states, Babis is likely to attract the attention of the head of the Hungarian government Victor Orban Called “True Friends”.
In reference to Orban’s ideas, Babis even called on Czech mothers to have more children-2.1 children per mother instead of 1.7 children-“so that our country will not perish”. Although the confrontation between Prague and Brussels is not as good as Warsaw and Budapest so far, it remains to be seen how Babiš will react after a possible re-election.
According to the current investigation, Prime Minister Babis’s re-election and re-election are both possible. According to the political scientist Pecher, the question of whether Babis wrote the book himself did not play a role in the debate about the book: “Definitely not.”
