Jana Bobošíková has become the latest candidate to gather the 50,000
signatures required to stand in next January’s presidential election,
her
Sovereignty party said on Saturday. To date the only other candidates to
acquire the necessary signatures have been Miloš Zeman and Jan Fischer,
two former prime ministers that polls suggest have the highest chance of
making it into the second, run-off round of the Czech Republic’s first
direct presidential vote. Mrs. Bobošíková, whose party support Czech
“national interests” and have no seats in the country’s Parliament,
was nominated unsuccessfully by the Communist Party in the last,
parliamentary election. The current Czech president, Václav Klaus, is due
to step down next March after two terms.