{"id":788,"date":"2008-01-14T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-01-14T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T15:05:14","slug":"the-other-american-presidential-candidate-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"The other American presidential candidate (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 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&#8217;ve drawn our attention to a different Presidential race than that in the USA  but one that surprisingly also involves an American.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;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&#8217;s a chance that he&#8217;ll be opposed by a Czech American who works for the World Bank. He&#8217;s called Jan Svejnar and he has the support of Vaclav Havel.<br \/>\nYou can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praguepost.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/12\/u-s-economist-could-oust-klaus.php\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is not a battle on a par with Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama &#8211; but it might be fun to watch. The Czech Parliament  considers the matter on 8 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 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&#8217;ve drawn our attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}