"I’m really very happy, I was a bit afraid but we all have to be happy with the result because it’s the best result we could get," says Katerina Lesikarova from Prague. Voters in the Czech capital hail the presidential election victory of Petr Pavel, a former NATO general, the morning after the vote. Pavel scored 58.3 percent of the vote to beat populist billionaire Andrej Babis with 41.7 percent. In March, Pavel will replace outspoken, divisive incumbent Milos Zeman as head of the EU and NATO member of 10.5 million people. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES