Jan Fisher would not let communists enter into government

Independent presidential candidate Jan Fischer has said he would not let the communists enter into government. Mr. Fischer, a former caretaker prime minister who is one of the hot candidates for the presidential post, said he considers the Communist Party an extremist party which had not fully accepted the post-1989 democratic changes in the country and had a highly negative stand to the European Union and NATO. Mr. Fisher said he would be extremely careful even in accepting a minority left-wing government with support from the Communist Party. Mr. Fischer himself was a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party from 1980 to 1989.