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Retired NATO general set to win Czech presidential vote

Retired NATO general set to win Czech presidential vote

PRAGUE: Czech polling stations reopened Saturday for the final leg of a presidential election run-off in which retired NATO general Petr Pavel is expected to beat the former prime minister Andrej Babis, one of the country's richest men.Analysts predicted a high turnout for the two-day vote, after an acrimonious campaign marked by controversy and even death threats and a brazen hoax.Pavel, a former paratrooper, topped the latest opinion polls with 58 to 59 percent support, compared with 41 to 42 percent for Babis.“Quite frankly, if the polls are well conducted, I think it will be hard for Babis to come back,“ said Tomas Lebeda, a political scientist at Palacky University.The victor will replace Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who fostered close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year.Voting in the small town of Dobrichovice southwest of Prague on an overcast Saturday morning, Irena Cihelkova told AFP the new president should serve

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