ANDREJ BABIS

Billionaire businessman, dubbed the “Czech Trump”, wins general election by pushing his trademark anti-corruption and anti-euro ticket

1 Czech Republic’s second-richest man set up the populist ANO (Yes) party in 2011 as a political outsider determined to lure voters with promises of clean politics, but he himself has been dogged by allegations of wrongdoing, something he denies

2 The 63-year-old hammered home his “now or never” mantra in his campaign, insisting that the ballot was a last chance for voters to get rid of “the treacherous hydra of corruption”

3 Given his country’s heavy reliance on the EU both in terms of trade and subsidies, Babis has ruled out “Czexit” but wants changes to rules on free movement of capital, goods, labour and services.