ANO to spend 50 million on election campaign

The ANO party will spend 50 million crowns on its regional election campaign this year, party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has told the Czech News Agency. The leader said ANO was setting as its goal to win a minimum of five regions and place second where it failed to clinch victories. Mr Babiš is to partly finance the campaign with an ongoing loan; according to figures dating back to 2014, cited by ČTK, the party owed its leader 65 million crowns. Fellow members in government, the Social Democrats expect to spend 100 million on their own campaign.

Author: Jan Velinger