PRAGUE, Jan 14 Former prime minister and dollar billionaire Andrei Babiš, after counting the data for 50% of the polling stations, leads in the first round of the Czech presidential election with 38.3% of the vote, his main rival, the former head of the NATO Military Committee Petr Pavel, narrowed the gap to 6 percentage points, he has 32.3%, reported Czech Statistical Office.
«The remaining six contenders for the post of head of the republic gained from 0.6% to 13.7% of the vote. The turnout in the elections was 67.4%,» the report says.
After counting data for 1% of polling stations, Babiš was in the lead with 42%, Pavel had 29% of the vote.
Presidential elections were held in the republic during Friday and Saturday, according to preliminary data, about 68% of registered voters took part in them, who had the opportunity to give preference to one of eight candidates. If none of the contenders manages to gain more than 50% of the votes in the first round, then the second round will take place on January 27-28.