The upstart party ANO 2011, led by billionaire
businessman-turned-politician Andrej Babiš, secured the most surprising
result of the election this year. The party, running a highly-effective
protest campaign, finished second with 18.6 percent of the vote, outpacing
not only the Communists, who were third (with 14.9 percent), but also two
of
the parties from the former government, TOP 09 and the Civic Democrats.
TOP
09, led by Karel Schwarzenberg, finished with 11.9 percent of the vote,
and
the Civic Democrats, led by Miroslava Němcová, secured 7.7 percent.