![Cover for: False dawn over Prague](https://www.eurozine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/b172fe83fffed6f9dee698f90ed1b4bd.jpg)
Petr Fiala’s replacement of Andrej Babiš as head of the Czech government is being seen as a refutation of the last four years of corruption, anti-Europeanism and populist instability. But this Manichean narrative, encouraged by the opposition during the campaign, ignores deeper tendencies within Czech politics.