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Retired general Petr Pavel defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in a runoff vote to become the new president of the Czech Republic.
Pavel will succeed controversy-courting Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post.
“My presidency will succeed only when we all succeed together,” Pavel told a cheering crowd of his supporters.
With the ballots from 97% of almost 15,000 polling stations counted by the Czech Statistics Office, Pavel had 57.8% of the vote compared with 42.2% for Babis.
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