Under the bill, worked out by the Senate constitutional commission, parliament would elect the president by a show of hands only if both houses agreed on it. Otherwise, deputies and senators would elect president in secret ballot by voting cards. Senators have Czech president undergoes successful hip joint operation ...
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Czech president thanks KDU-CSL for support, praises reforms ... been trying to push through the legislation for 11 years. Its current wording is based on an agreement between the Senate constitutional commission and the respective lower house commission. The new regulations of the presidential election should prevent the procedural delays that accompanied the previous election in February from repeating. The Chamber of Deputies then pushed through a show of hands since most of the 200 deputies refused to accept the more traditional secret ballot, supported by a majority of 81 senators. President Vaclav Klaus was in the end re-elected for another five years, beating his rival candidate, economist Jan Svejnar, in the third round.
(Ceske Noviny)
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