The other American presidential candidate (1)

My wife is half Czech, we have many Czech friends, and we visit the Czech Republic regularly, so we have a passing interest in Czech politics – which never features in the foreign media. At the moment, we have two close Czech friends staying with us for a few days and they’ve drawn our attention to a different Presidential race than that in the USA but one that surprisingly also involves an American.
We’re talking here about the presidency of the Czech Republic, originally held by former anti-Communist dissident and political prisoner Vaclav Havel but currently occupied by the Right-wing and Euro-sceptic former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. It ought to be a walkover for Klaus to win a second term, but there’s a chance that he’ll be opposed by a Czech American who works for the World Bank. He’s called Jan Svejnar and he has the support of Vaclav Havel.
You can learn more here.
This is not a battle on a par with Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama – but it might be fun to watch. The Czech Parliament considers the matter on 8 February.