The Czech and Slovak presidents, Milos Zeman and Ivan Gasparovic, would welcome a better transport connection between their countries and a closer cooperation of companies, such as rail cargo operators, they said after their meeting in Bratislava today. Zeman arrived on a two-day visit to Slovakia, his first foreign trip since he was inaugurated on March [...]
Petr Hajek, deputy head of President Vaclav Klaus’s Presidential Office, left his post on February 28, Hajek confirmed to the server Tyden.cz today. Hajek left the office one week before Klaus himself, whose term expires on March 7. On the same day, head of the political department of the Presidential Office Ladislav Jakl will leave [...]
Unsuccessful presidential candidate Jan Fischer (unaffiliated) owes seven or eight million crowns for his election campaign, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Fischer confirmed that his debt is several million crowns. “I am negotiating with my biggest sponsor, possibly with other sponsors,” he told the paper. But Fischer’s biggest sponsor, the steel and health [...]
Czech President-Elect Milos Zeman, 68, has started working in his office in Prague centre and he met Presidential Office head Jiri Weigl and Prague Castle Administration director Ivo Velisek today within the preparation for his assuming the presidential post. After the meeting, Zeman told reporters that he had started working on his inauguration address. Weigl [...]
Leftist candidate Milos Zeman won the Czech presidential elections with 54.8 percent, having received half a million votes more than his conservative rival Karel Schwarzenberg. The voter turnout was 59.11 percent. Zeman won in all regions except Prague. Schwarzenberg was also successful in most regional capitals and among voters residing and casting their votes at [...]
The vote of Czech presidential candidate Karel Schwarzenberg in the election’s run-off today is invalid as he did not put his ballot paper in the official envelope before casting it in the box, which can be seen in photos from the polling station. Schwarzenberg, 75, foreign minister and conservative TOP 09 chairman, eventually confirmed his [...]
The Czech public television and radio and the Nova and Prima Family commercial TV stations will broadcast duels of the two presidential candidates, Milos Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg, before the second round of the direct election on January 25-26, their representatives told CTK today. Former Social Democrat prime minister Zeman (now Party of Citizens’ Rights, [...]
The first round of the Czech two-round direct presidential election ended and polling stations closed Saturday at 14:00. Choosing from nine candidates, voters probably decided which two candidates are advancing to the second round due on January 25-26, as no pre-election public opinion poll indicated that one candidate might win, gaining over 50 percent of [...]
All nine candidates running for Czech president met in a debate on public Czech Television (CT) on Thursday evening, eighteen hours ahead of the start of the first round of the country’s first ever direct election of the head of state. The candidates answered questions asked by popular moderator Vaclav Moravec, such as what are [...]
The Czech Constitutional Court (US) today rejected senator Tomio Okamura’s complaint, including his proposals to change the constitution and the implementing law on the direct presidential election and. The first round of the direct presidential election in the Czech Republic will be held on January 11-12. A possible second round is scheduled two weeks later. [...]
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