PRAGUE — He’s a media-wise billionaire used to getting his own way, and promising to run the government like a business. He wants immigrants to stay away. And although his political positions are tricky to pin down, they are tinged with populist and muscular rhetoric.
Andrej Babis, 63, who built an agribusiness and media empire in the ruins of the Soviet collapse, is the front-runner to become the Czech Republic’s new prime minister, running as the leader of a movement he created a few years ago for that very purpose.
“He is like Trump, really,” said Jiri Pehe, a political analyst and director of New York University in Prague. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/world/europe/czech-republic-andrej-babis.html
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