The author is the editor of Czech Radio Plus
If we leave out the fear of war, Andrej Babiš’s main argument against Petr Pavlov during the presidential election was that he is the government’s candidate.
It made sense – Pavel was, together with Danuša Nerudová and Senator Pavlo Fischer, one of the candidates that Fial’s government recommended to the voters when it could not find its own candidate.
Pavel tried to distance himself from the government and its unpopularity already during the campaign. Now he started openly criticizing the government.
The first criticism was about human rights. The Czech government did not join the lawsuit against Hungary for the anti-LGBTI+ law, which prohibits any presentation of homosexuality and works related to it in schools for children under the age of 18. The government doesn’t mind that