"Czech Pirates Under Attack" - Balkan insight shilling for the Czech Pirate Party

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Once the frontrunner, the Pirate Party is taking a pasting from the ruling ANO party, leaving its progressive centrist coalition in third place two months before the election. But Pirate leader Bartos is not giving up hope of changing Czech politics for the good.

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But a vicious fightback by populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis has dented PaS’s support. The billionaire premier has been busy warning the country’s older and more conservative voters that the progressive-liberal Pirates are actually an authoritarian neo-Marxist mob hellbent on forcing them to become vegan and share their homes with migrants.

In the current environment, Bartos warns, just about any issue can be abused in such a way.

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As with every election, there are plenty of suggestions that the upcoming race for power is a particularly vital one for the country’s future. This time, however, there might be something to those proclamations. Czechia goes to the polls as populist conservative forces seek to diminish the power of democratic institutions and pull the country to the east.

Babis, desperate to evade charges over the misuse of EU funds and dependent on the scheming pro-Russian President Milos Zeman, is viewed by many as a danger to Czechia’s liberal tradition.

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“We cannot let them close down our freedom,” Bartos declares. “Babis has completely changed the understanding of Czech politics – ethics and truth don’t matter anymore.”