Czech Politics: Fiala government

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Zero percent chance he'll bring TOP09 in government; they represent exactly the opposite of the populist message Babis wants.

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Yes, this is Brexit disease all over again - somehow an election where the polling consensus was largely "narrow Leave victory, with a small rally for Remain towards the end helped by a randomly high Populus score" got converted into "POLLING INDUSTRY STUMPED AGAIN???" Not that pollsters aren't lousy, especially in countries like Czechia; but I feel their shoddiness reflects more unreliability than bias.

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Have KDU ruled out support? Those sort of parties normally provide useful coalition fodder.

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Has Babis (and his family?) divested from his business holdings?

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the bright side for CSSD is that if Babis does go away (?) because he finds being in opposition tedious, I can't see why ANO would do anything bar collapse under its sheer incoherent nature, leading to a lot more "naturally" left leaning types to have their vote free types; maybe even the total flop of the Pirates could lead the social progressives in the Soc Dems to try and make a play there (although trying to play for both would probably be a very tricky bet).

Communists are dead though - their whole gimmick was being a nostalgic testimonial party, something they couldn't do while actually propping up the government, no point for them anymore.