Articles for category: Politics

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Majority of Parties Back Drahos Over Zeman

Prague, (CTK) – Various organisations and personalities express support for the presidential candidates, President Milos Zeman and academic Jiri Drahos, before the weekend runoff vote, their representatives told CTK in their press releases and press conferences today.   The Czech Freedom Fighters’ Association chairman Jaroslav Vodicka, on behalf of the Patriotic Forum, and conservative group ...

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Anxious ANO Announces Support for Zeman as Drahos Gains Lead

Prague, (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s ANO called on its members, voters and followers to vote for President Milos Zeman in the second round of the presidential race as he is an experienced politician and ANO identifies itself with his attitudes, Jaroslav Faltynek, head of the ANO deputy group, said today.   In the ...

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Fact Check: 9 Lies Zeman Told on TV Nova Appearance

Prague, (CTK) – Incumbent President Milos Zeman made nine false statements during the Sunday public discussion on the Nova television station, a part of the presidential debates, the server Demagog.cz said today.   Zeman spoke truth in 11 out of 32 statements relating to some facts.   In ten cases, the statements were misleading and ...

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Polls Show Zeman and Drahos Neck and Neck Going into Debates

Prague, (CTK) – The odds of incumbent President Milos Zeman and his contender Jiri Drahos in the 2nd round of the presidential election are about the same with 45 percent of Czechs being for either, the latest polls conducted by the agencies Median and Kantar TNS said today.   Like a week ago, the turnout ...

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Former Candidates Campaign in Support of Drahos

Brno, (CTK) – Michal Horacek, Marek Hilser and Pavel Fischer, three unsuccessful candidates from the first round of the presidential election, openly supported Jiri Drahos in his duel with incumbent President Milos Zeman at a public rally in a crowded local cultural room today.   All of them appeared for the first time together in ...

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Zeman Prefers Minority Government Led by PM Babis

Prague, (CTK) – President Milos Zeman prefers a minority government of Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO ) with the support of Social Democrats and Communists or Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), Zeman told the commercial television station Nova today.   It is up to ANO, which won the October election, whether to choose Babis as ...

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Fischer Announces Support For Drahos in Election

Prague, (CTK) – Pavel Fischer, who surprisingly finished third with 10 percent of the vote in the first round of the Czech presidential election, will personally support Jiri Drahos, who finished second and advanced to its second round on January 26-27, Fischer’s spokesman Alena Jezkova told journalists today.   Drahos, former chairman of the Czech ...

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Green Party Backs Drahos in Presidential Election

Ceska Trebova, East Bohemia, (CTK) – The Greens support Jiri Drahos as the presidential candidate against incumbent President Milos Zeman in the second round of the vote, Matous Vencalek, a member of the party board, told journalists today.   The party has called on its members and supporters to actively join the campaign for the ...

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Andrej Babis and MIlos Zeman at Capi Hnzido

Key Events in Babis’s Stork Nest (Capi Hnizdo) EU Subsidy Fraud Case

Prague, (CTK) – Selected events related to the case of Capi hnizdo farm in which Prime Minister in resignation and ANO chairman Andrej Babis and ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek whom the lower house of Czech parliament released for criminal prosecution on suspicion of EU subsidy fraud today:   2006 – Reconstruction work turning a ...