A recent poll indicates outgoing President Vaclav Klaus is still the country's most trusted politician.
President Vaclav Klaus is still the most trustworthy Czech politician with 51 percent, 3 percent more than last summer, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM polling institute. The second place went to Constitutional Court chairman Pavel Rychetsky whose popularity increased from 43 to 48 percent. Klaus has been the most trustworthy politician since the first poll of this kind was conducted in 2010. However, Klaus declared a general amnesty in his New Year's speech, which has caused a public outcry that is likely to affect his popularity, the Czech News Agency reported.
Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg plans to tour northern Moravia and other regions where his position is weak ahead of the second round of the presidential polls in which he will face former socialist PM Milos Zeman. Zeman's team will focus on the social networks, an area in which Schwarzenberg has prevailed so far. Before the run-off vote due on January 25-26, Schwarzenberg aims to gain the support of swing voters who are considering support for zeman in the runoff. Zeman's aides are still tuning up the form of his final campaign.
A Prague court has cleared the terrorism charges of seven foreigners accused of helping organize a terrorist attack. The group, suspected of cooperating with the Islamist organization Jamaat Shariat, was instead indicted on charges related to the illegal forging of official documents, carrying a 3-5 year prison term. According to the indictment, the group, consisting of four persons from Dagestan, two from Bulgaria and one from Moldova, was involved in the manufacturing and distribution of forged documents for the citizens of Dagestan in 2008-2010.
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