Europe News Desk!!! Petr Pavel, who served as the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2015 to 2018, has been sworn in as the fourth President of the Czech Republic. In his opening speech before a joint session of both houses of parliament at Prague Castle’s Vladislav Hall, Pavel pledged to unite the country and pursue value-based politics, Xinhua news agency reported. Pavel, 61, was also the chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces from 2012 to 2015. We are all facing the same problems together, and together we can successfully tackle them, he said. Powell’s five-year term has begun. If he wins another election after the end of the current term, he can remain president for a maximum of two terms. He won the second round of the Czech presidential election held in January this year with 58.32 percent of the vote, while former Prime Minister Andrej Babis won 41.67 percent.
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