Czech President Václav Klaus will not be granting a presidential pardon
to Roman Smetana, a former bus driver, who is charged with damaging public
property by scribbling over election posters. According to the
president’s spokesman Mr Smetana is not in a situation that would justify
a presidential pardon. Roman Smetana, who was sentenced to 100 days in
prison by a lower instance court and released last week pending a Supreme
Court review of his case, was charged anew on Monday with evading his
prison sentence. This could land him another 3 years in jail.