Current Affairs Havel calls on Prague citizens not to vote for Civic Democrats

02-06-2008 15:32 | Rob Cameron

The former Czech president Václav Havel has largely refrained from interfering in or commenting on domestic politics since stepping down as president five years ago. But this weekend he seemed to cross that fine line between general philosophising on the state of society and making overtly political gestures, when he said people in Prague should not vote for the right-of-centre Civic Democrats in the forthcoming elections.

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