{"id":129034,"date":"2023-01-30T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=129034"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T07:57:10","slug":"petr-pavel-former-chairman-of-the-nato-military-committee-became-the-president-of-the-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/petr-pavel-former-chairman-of-the-nato-military-committee-became-the-president-of-the-czech-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Pavel, Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Became the President of the Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Petr Pavel, Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Became the President of the Czech Republic:<\/strong> The new president of the Czech Republic is Petr Pavel, who previously served as chairman of NATO&#8217;s military committee. &nbsp;Pavel, 61, defeated billionaire Andrej Babis in a run-off vote to replace controversial President Milos Zeman as he emerged as the new Czech President. Pavel, a former general in the armed forces, received more than 58% of the vote, according to the Czech Statistics Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-january-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More About This Development:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As none of the eight initial candidates received an absolute majority in the first round of voting two weeks ago, the election was decided in a second-round run-off between Pavel and Babis. Former paratrooper Pavel received 58.3% of the vote, while Andrej Babis received 41.7 %.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 61-year-old Pavel will in March replace President Milos Zeman, an outspoken and divisive politician who fostered close ties with Moscow before making a U-turn when Russia invaded Ukraine last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Petr Pavel\u2019s Political Lineage:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been a vocal supporter of the European Union and NATO, seeing the Czech Republic\u2019s future as inextricably linked to their membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time and again, Pavel has also expressed his support for the country to provide military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine during the conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petr Pavel, Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Became the President of the Czech Republic: The new president of the Czech Republic is Petr Pavel, who previously served as chairman of NATO&#8217;s military committee. &nbsp;Pavel, 61, defeated billionaire Andrej Babis in a run-off vote to replace controversial President Milos Zeman as he emerged as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":129035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[58,4919],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-129034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2023","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-persons-in-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129037,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034\/revisions\/129037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129034"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=129034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}