Incoming Czech President Petr Pavel marks clean break from Zeman’s 10-year rule

By Albin Sybera Retired General Petr Pavel, who will be inaugurated as the fourth president of Czechia on March 9, will mark – and has already begun marking – a clear break with his outgoing predecessor, the pro-Russian political veteran Milos Zeman. Pavel, 61, is thefirst non-politician to become the country’s president and the first who was not involved in the 1989 Velvet Revolution against communism – as well as the first who was actually a Communist Party member in 1989. “Petr Pavel will be very disturbing in many ways,” Novinky.cz columnist Alexandr Mitrofanov told bne IntelliNews. “He wi…

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