The victory of Czech populist leader Andrej Babiš’ ANO party in Saturday’s elections did more than confirm the populist trend throughout Europe. It reaffirmed that this dramatic movement is actually a modern-day Peasants’ Revolt.
It doesn’t matter what country one looks at or how economically developed that nation is. Parties that are in favour with the Brussels elite always win in cities and their near-in suburbs, while those denounced as “extremists” always prevail elsewhere.
Czechia’s results fall into that clear pattern. The establishment parties — the SPOLU alliance, STAN (Mayors and Independents) and the Pirates-Green coalition — won the vote in nine of the nation’s twelve largest cities. They also carried the day in the smaller communities surrounding those places, especially outside the two largest cities, Prague and Brno.
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