Czech Republic Czech president Miloš Zeman wins second five-year term Pro-Russian leader receives 51.8% of votes in runoff against political newcomer Jiri DrahosPresident Milos Zeman during the casting of his ballot at a polling station in Prague. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPAThe Czech president, Miloš Zeman, has been elected to a second five-year term after winning a runoff vote. Results from the Czech Statistical Office on Saturday showed Zeman receiving 51.8% of the votes cast in the two-day, second-round election, with nearly all the ballots counted. “I would like to congratulate election winner Milos Zeman,” he told a crowd of supporters. Zeman is the country’s third president – after Václav Havel and Václav Klaus – since Czechoslovakia was split in 1993.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2018 15:35 UTC