Czech billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis vowed loyalty to Europe as he met the president to start talks on a new government Sunday, a day after his movement topped a national vote.

Final results showed that Babis’s ANO (Yes) party won 34.5 percent of the vote on Friday and Saturday, earning 80 seats in the 200-member parliament of the EU and NATO member of 10.9 million people.

Babis said he would seek backing for his government from the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement, which earned 7.8 percent for 15 seats, and right-wing newcomers, the Motorists, with 6.8 percent and 13 seats.

A self-proclaimed “Trumpist”, Babis won over voters with pledges of welfare and halting military aid to Ukraine, which made pundits worry the country might shift towards EU mavericks Slovak

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