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The former Chief of General Staff Petr Pavel will be the new president in the Czech Republic after gaining 58.3% of the votes in the run-off election, said statistics agency CSU. The vote was between former NATO general and mainstream pro-Western candidate Pavel, and populist ex-prime minister and billionaire businessman Andrej Babiš. Babis received just under 41.7% of the vote. Voter turnout was relatively high, with around 70% of the electorate showing up at the polls. As his supporters cheered, Pavel said in Prague: “In this election, values have won – values like truth, dignity, respect an…