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Former NATO general Petr Pavel reacts to the results of the second round of the presidential election, in a speech to a cheering crowd in Prague, Czech Republic. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 56.76 percent of votes while former prime minister Andrej Babis scored 43.23 percent, with over 85 percent of the vote counted, according to the Czech Statistical Office. IMAGES
Retired Czech army general and candidate in the 2023 presedential election, Petr Pavel, votes in the village of Cernoucek as the polling stations have just opened for the election's first round. Pavel, 61, served as the chief of the Czech general staff and chair of NATO's military committee and is a former paratrooper decorated as a hero of the Serbo-Croatian war. He is facing a billionaire and an academic in a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call. IMAGES
Populist ex-Czech prime minister and candidate in the presedential election, Andrej Babis, votes in the village of Pruhonice just after the polling stations opened for the election's first round. Babis, 68, is the fifth wealthiest person in the Czech Republic, according to Forbes magazine, and is facing a general and an academic leading in a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call. IMAGES
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel gives a speech to his crowd of supporters after winning the Czech presidential election. Pavel, a former paratrooper, won 58 percent of votes while his rival billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis scored 42 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted, according to the Czech Statistical Office. IMAGES
Retired NATO general Petr Pavel votes in the Czech presidential election run-off in which he is expected to beat billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis. The victor will replace Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who nursed close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Former paratrooper Pavel topped final opinion polls with 58-59 percent support, compared with 41-42 percent for Babis. IMAGES
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis addresses reporters after he narrowly lost in a cliffhanger general election to a centre-right alliance, final results show, in a surprise reversal for the billionaire populist. IMAGES
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