Czech Christian Democrat head against opposition's presidential candidate

Bratislava, 12 February: Foreign Minister and [governing coalition] Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) leader Cyril Svoboda stood up against the election of Vaclav Klaus as Czech president in an interview with the Slovak daily Pravda today. On the other hand, Jan Sokol (whose candidacy for president is be...

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Published inBBC Monitoring European - Political p. 1
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published London BBC Worldwide Limited 12.02.2003
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Klaus, Vaclav
Svoboda, Cyril
CZECH
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Summary:Bratislava, 12 February: Foreign Minister and [governing coalition] Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) leader Cyril Svoboda stood up against the election of Vaclav Klaus as Czech president in an interview with the Slovak daily Pravda today. On the other hand, Jan Sokol (whose candidacy for president is being considered by the government coalition of the Social Democrats (CSSD), the KDU-CSL and the Freedom Union-DEU (US- DEU)), has the positive qualification of being among the most prominent Czech philosophers and of lecturing throughout the globe as a renowned scholar.