Andrej Babiš is a businessman, former prime minister, leader of the ANO opposition movement and an unsuccessful candidate for president in 2023. In 2025, Forbes magazine ranked him 7th in the list of the richest Czechs. He owns the holding conglomerate Agrofert, which in the past was in trust funds due to the Conflict of Interest Act. At the end of 2024, however, Babiš had the funds dissolved in order to become the direct owner of the holding’s shares again after more than seven years.
Parliamentary elections 2025
Ve elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2025 he was a leader in the Moravian-Silesian region. ANO won by a large margin: it won 34.51%, 80 mandates and a record number of votes (1,940,507). Babiš also received a record number of preferential votes (72,119). Coalition TOGETHER main rival ANO, took second place (23.36% and 52 mandates).
On Monday, October 27, 2025, President Pavel entrusted Babiš with forming a new government. The head of ANO believes that the government will be in December.
The trial of Andrej Babiš
Due to the abuse of European subsidies, he appeared in court. In September 2022, the former prime minister and his adviser at the time, Jana Nagyová (Mayerová), were charged with subsidy fraud and damage to the financial interests of the EU. The trial with Babiš started on September 12, 2022, and despite all the evidence, on January 9, 2023, four days before the presidential elections, Andrej Babiš and his adviser acquitted. According to judge Jan Šotta, the actions of the defendants were not a criminal act.
Prosecutor Jaroslav Šaroch appealed against the acquittal to the Supreme Court, which ordered a new hearing in the Čapí hnízdo case on September 14, 2023. The Prague Municipal Court confirmed the acquittal. But the plaintiff appealed again. In June 2025, the Court of Appeal annulled the earlier acquittal and Babiš remains a defendant. The case of Čapí hnízdo has thus returned to the beginning to the Municipal Court, but it must follow the opinion of the Court of Appeal, according to which Babiš and Nagyová committed two crimes.
Who is Andrej Babiš?
Andrej Babiš, born on September 2, 1954 in Bratislava, is the founder and chairman ANO 2011 movement. He graduated from the business faculty with a focus on foreign trade at the Bratislava University of Economics.
Since October 2013, he has been a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. Between 2014 and 2017, he was the first deputy prime minister and also served as finance minister in Bohuslav Sobotka’s government. In 2011, he founded the citizens’ initiative Action of Dissatisfied Citizens, which gave rise to the current ANO 2011 movement.
Andrej Babiš is the founder and owner of the agrochemical holding Agrofert, which includes more than 250 companies. Agrofert also included the media house Mafra, which publishes national dailies Lidové noviny or Mladá fronta Dnes. At the beginning of September 2023, Mafra was bought by billionaire Karel Pražák.
The first and second governments of Andrej Babiš
He failed to form the first government, because he offered a smaller number of ministerial seats to the potential partner of the ČSSD than he requested. Therefore, Babiš’s government did not gain the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies in January 2018 and ruled in resignation until June. It thus became the second longest-reigning government in resignation in the history of the independent Czech Republic. It was established in June 2018 the second government of Andrej Babiš and he was re-appointed Prime Minister by the President.
Defeat in the 2021 parliamentary elections
The parliamentary elections in 2021 were won by the electoral coalition Spolu led by the ODS. She won 27.79 percent of the votes. Andrej Babiš’s ANO was second with 27.12 percent.
The cases of Andrej Babiš
Babiš has been a member of the Communist Party since 1980. The former prime minister never proved his claim that he was not a conscious collaborator of the StB, in whose archives he appears as an agent with the code name “Bureš”. In addition to the nationwide case, Čapí hnízdo has other misdeeds on its account, some of which go far into the past.
Presidential elections 2023
In January 2023, Andrej Babiš ran in the presidential elections. Although he advanced from the first round with 34.99% of the votes together with Petr Pavle, however, he failed in the second round with 41.68% of the votes, and the opposing candidate Petr Pavel was elected as the new president of the Czech Republic.
Personal life
Andrej Babiš lives in Průhonice in Central Bohemia. He has four children, son Andrej and daughter Adriana from his first marriage, son Frederik and daughter Vivien from his second marriage. On Friday, April 19, 2024, Andrej Babiš announced that he was separating from his wife Monika after 30 years. Despite the separation, Monika Babišová supported her husband, for example, in the 2025 elections.
