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Current AffairsCzech parties struggle with premiere presidential primaries
Less than a year before Czechs take to the polls to directly elect their
president for the first time in history, some of the major political
parties have begun choosing their candidates. However, both the ruling
Civic Democrats and the opposition Social Democrats seem to struggle with
the process: the former party’s most hopeful candidate quit the race
before it even began, while one of the latter party’s picks is hesitant
to run for them. Commentator Erik Best says this reflects the parties’
mixed feelings about direct presidential elections in the first place. More
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