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Visiting Fellow @AtlanticCouncil | @ACEurope | Czech diplomat | Anything Europe, Middle East, Sahel | My name is pronounced تُومَا
Jan 28, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
#Czechs have spoken. The new 🇨🇿 #president for the next 5Y will be Petr #Pavel, a retired general, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (2015-2018), and strongly pro-Atlanticist defender of liberal-democratic values. ✌️🦁

Thread 🧵 Pavel defeated Andrej Babiš, a wealthy businessman, frmr PM (2017-2021), who led an aggressive populist campaign and brought up the Russian war against Ukraine as a key issue. Babiš called for „peace“ and accused the retired general of being a warmonger. 2/9