Former NATO General Wins Czech Presidential Election

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Former army chief of staff Petr Pavel defeated billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babis in a presidential runoff vote and became the fourth president of the Czech Republic on Saturday.
According to the Czech Statistics Office, Pavel won 58.3% of the vote with just over approximately 3.3M votes out of the nearly 8.25M votes cast in the runoff.
Pavel, claimed, 'My presidency will succeed only when we all succeed together. I can see that values such as truth, dignity, respect, and humility have won in this election.'
In defeat, Babis — who secured 42.7% of the votes — called on his supporters 'to accept that I've lost and accept we have a new president.'
Pavel — a former NATO general — is set to replace Milos Zeman, whose second and final term expires in March.
While the role is largely ceremonial in nature, the Czech president names the government, selects the central bank governor, determines the constitutional judges, and acts as armed forces commander.

Narrative A, as provided by BBC News. Pavel's win is not just a victory for liberal democracy over oligarchic populism, it's also a humiliating rebuff for Babis — who ran an ill-tempered campaign and portrayed Pavel as a warmonger for his support of military aid to Ukraine. He represents the whole of society and can act as an independent, no-nonsense, dignified president unaffected by divisive party politics.
Narrative B, as provided by Al Jazeera. A strong advocate of Czech membership of the EU and NATO, Pavel — a former soldier and a KGB-trained spy during the Communist era — could potentially drag the country into a bigger war with Russia if he fulfilled his pledge to aid and support Ukraine. Furthermore, a president who openly supports unpopular policies will bring disorder to the Czech Republic.