Election Favorite Takes Campaign Break After Czech Rally Attack

Czech election frontrunner and billionaire, Andrej Babis, said he was taking a brief break from intense campaigning after he was attacked at a rally by a man with a walking stick.

Babis, whose opposition ANO party is poised to sweep to victory in October elections with pledges to ramp up spending, said in a post on X that he was going to rest on Tuesday to recover from a minor injury he suffered in Dobra, a small town in eastern Czech Republic. The former prime minister was briefly hospitalized on Monday after the attack.