He said he had found the letter with gun powder in his post in the Senate this morning and had handed it to the police. Previously, KDU-CSL Senator Josef Kalbac who voted for incumbent President Vaclav Klaus in the first election on February 8-9 received a similar letter. Bartak is also considered Klaus's supporter but he has never Czechs divided on Klaus, Svejnar as future president - CVVM poll ...
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Svejnar to run for Czech president ... said publicly for whom he will vote. According to available information, seven lawmakers have received threatening letters in connection with the presidential election.
Three deputies and two senators, who also voted for Klaus, received firearms bullets in envelopes. Bartak said that though he was concerned about the letter he would attend the election of a new president on Friday because he did not want to "yield to blackmailers." The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate did not elect the new Czech president at a joint session next Friday and Saturday. Klaus, the official candidate of the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS), and his rival economist Jan Svejnar, supported by centre-left groups, mainly the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) and the junior government Green Party (SZ), have not received the required majority of votes. In the second election this Friday, MEP Jana Bobosikova, nominated by the Communists (KSCM), will also run for president, along with Klaus and Svejnar.
(Ceske Noviny)
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