The frontrunner is Andrej Babiš, a billionaire businessman and former prime minister whose right-wing populist ANO party is polling around 30%, about 10 points ahead of Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s governing centre-right coalition, the Spolu (Together) alliance. Yet Babiš is not Orbán. is possible but fraught, as Babiš has distanced himself from their overtly anti-EU and anti-NATO stance, my colleague Aneta Zachová reports. Babiš faces a retrial, after an appeals court overturned his acquittal, on charges of fraudulently securing €2 million in EU subsidies. López-Istúriz shared his views about the Middle East, Europe’s ties with Washington, and Spain’s embattled prime minister, Pedro Sánchez.