Support for direct election of president firms

A poll by the Median agency for Czech Radio shows strengthened support for the direct election of the head of state, the president. Support for direct presidential elections has jumped to 84 percent of those questioned in the latest poll. That compares with 78 percent when a similar poll was held in April last year. Sitting head of state Miloš Zeman is expected to declare during the first half of next year whether he will stand again to be president in elections due to take place at the start of 2018. Zeman was the first president to be elected directly.

Author: Chris Johnstone