Prague, Oct. 5 -- Billionaire businessman Andrej Babis has won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, although his populist ANO party fell short of an overall majority, preliminary results show.
At current predictions, ANO received just under 35 percent of the vote, earning them 81 seats in the 200-seat lower house, reports BBC.
Babis - who served as prime minister from 2017 to 2021 - is expected to be invited to lead talks on forming a new coalition.
This election has thrown up no great surprises, but leaves plenty of questions.
Few believed the current centre-right coalition would survive. Few had any doubt Babis would emerge in first place. Few believed he would win enough seats to govern alone.
All of those predictions - bo...