Poll: Fischer, Švejnar favourites in 2013 presidential election.

A new poll from the Factum Invenio agency suggests that none of the candidates widely considered to be favourites to succeed incumbent president Václav Klaus would gain a majority in the first round of voting. Klaus’s second term ends in March 2013; the election of his successor will likely be in a new system in which a popular vote, rather than parliament, decides the winner. According to the poll, former independent PM Jan Fischer would gain 24.5% and former Klaus rival, also an independent, Jan Švejnar would receive 14.5%. These two would then face off in a second round of voting. Also making the list are Civic Democrat Lower House chair Miroslava Němcová with 9.7%; businessman Tomio Okamura with 9.2% and current Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg with 8.4%.

Author: Dominik Jůn