Sobotka wins Civic Democratic presidential primaries

Senator Přemysl Sobotka will be the Civic Democratic Party’s candidate for president. He defeated MEP Evžen Tošenovský in party primaries with 61% of the vote to his rival’s 39%. About a fourth of the party’s roughly 27,000 members took part in the vote. Surveys suggest that Senator Sobotka remains a long shot for the presidential post, which will be filled for the first time through popular elections in early 2013.