Filip said the ODS would gain the necessary votes from the junior ruling Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL). "The ODS has really 148 legislators to vote for Vaclav Klaus," Filip told CTK and server Tyden.cz. "The KDU-CSL can afford to give seven votes for Jan Svejnar and Vaclav Klaus will be elected.
The coalition is based on this format," Filip said. The KDU-CSL has 24 legislators in parliament most of whom supported Klaus in the first three-round presidential election on February 8-9 where no candidate received a sufficient majority to be elected. Klaus, 66, will again run against in the second election on Friday. His rival candidates are economist Svejnar, 55, who alternately lives in the Untied States and Czech Republic, and MEP Jana Bobosikova, Communists propose five candidates for Czech president ...
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Czech Communists still evasive about presidential candidate ... nominated by the Communists.
(Ceske Noviny)
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