""This election is really about the future orientation of this country," Lipavsky told DW. "For the first time, forces that are openly collaborating with Putin's Russia are reaching for power." "That's the main reason why I'm running in this election," he continued, "I believe we can succeed in maintaining the pro-Western course of the country. And that's incredibly important.""
"The parties in the ruling coalition are campaigning on their clear foreign policy line, which is based on full and unequivocal support for Ukraine. This is what the majority of voters like about Petr Fiala's government. Czechia, which has a population of 10 million, has taken in over half a million Ukrainian refugees, many of whom found accommodation and got support from private citizens."
"It's a beautiful September afternoon in the Czech capital, Prague. Football fans are making their way to a Champions League match in the stadium that is home to soccer club Slavia Prague. A group of campaigners with wicker baskets and cloth bags full of flyers and pens stands outside the nearby Eden shopping mall. Among them is Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, who is watched carefully by a discreet security detail."
Campaigners and politicians are campaigning in Prague ahead of the October parliamentary election, with Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky personally urging voters to preserve a pro-Western course. The center-right Spolu alliance is running on full support for Ukraine and a Western alignment. Czechia has taken in over half a million Ukrainian refugees and provided arms and ammunition to Ukraine, and Prime Minister Petr Fiala was among the first European leaders to visit Kyiv after the 2022 invasion. The election is framed as a choice between maintaining a pro-Ukraine, Western orientation and allowing forces sympathetic to Putin's Russia to gain influence.
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