Presidential Elections, Part Deux
Czech legislators will meet on a joint session tomorrow for the second attempt to elect the next president.
The candidates are: President Vaclav Klaus, who would like his second term, University of Michigan professor Jan Svejnar, and former journalist and Member of the European Parliament Jana Bobosikova, who is nominated by the communists.
The party admits that the nomination is a part of their tactics, Bobosikova has no chance to win – but she might steal some votes from Svejnar, and so the communists now haggle with the Green Party: the support for Svejnar (or lack thereof) in exchange for the no-vote on the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic…
Looks like Klaus is much closer to victory now…
Things got ugly after the first election: some legislators received bullets in their mail, others got offensive and vulgar SMS messages…
TO BE UPDATED AS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS
News and comments on both Czech and global issues, made and written by Petr Bokuvka, a translator and journalist with previous professional experience in newspaper editing, radio broadcasting and TV news reporting.
