Jan Fischer, the former Czech prime minister and the current front runner in the first ever direct presidential elections in the Czech Republic, says he would resign his post as EBRD vice president once his presidential candidacy is officially registered. Yesterday he started collecting the 50,000 signatures he’ll need to get on the ballot.
Of his competitors, only the former PM Miloš Zeman has succeeded to gather the required number of signatures. Fischer says the time he spent in London would prove a useful experience as Czech president. As an EBRD vice-president since September 2010, he says he has met more foreign dignitaries than when he acted as prime minister in a transition government of technocrats from April 2009 to July 2010.
