An Agrofert bakery, Pekárna Zelená louka, and two of its former managers went on trial yesterday on charges of fraud with regard to a Kč 100m subsidy for a sliced-bread production line, but even convictions wouldn't do much to affect the poll ratings of Andrej Babiš and ANO. Babiš's voters would put it in the same category as Stork's Nest and brush it aside. More serious for ANO are growing reports about changes to the healthcare system that intentionally benefit Babiš's Hartenberg Capital (assisted-reproduction clinics, hip replacements, etc.). MP Jan Síla of SPD told Právo that Health Min. Adam Vojtěch of ANO is taking steps to privatize healthcare and is doing it in a way that is advantageous to Hartenberg. The risk to Babiš is that voters will make a distinction between taking advantage of the existing business environment (Stork's Nest, Zelená louka) and rigging the legislative system to his future advantage (known as state capture). Doing such a thing now is especially dangerous, given that STAN is rising in the polls and has the support of investigative reporters and civic groups that are tracking Babiš's every move. Babiš is pushing full steam ahead on the healthcare changes anyway, which gives strength to the arguments of critics who say he's losing his grip on reality.

