Profit first for Andrej Babiš

As minister for EU affairs under Petr Fiala, Martin Dvořák was one of the CR's least-known top politicians. In a CVVM poll in Feb. 2024, 71% of respondents didn't know who he was. Yet he's one of STAN's most-visible faces and is a darling of the mainstream media. He's a good talker and has extensive experience (municipal and national politics, diplomacy). And he isn't implicated at all in the Dosimeter criminal case. (The Martin Dvořák charged in it is someone else.) Martin Dvořák of STAN will undoubtedly get a lot of media coverage in his Hradec Králové Senate race this fall, which means we'll start hearing often that "the national government at the highest level operates primarily to ensure that Andrej Babiš's companies generate the highest possible profits." All else, including national security and pensions, is secondary, Dvořák says. It will be fascinating to hear in his election campaign how Babiš is profiting from the reorganization of ČEZ, the sale of Explosia and the construction of a new Prague hospital.