Billionaire Sehnal to run for mayor of Prague

Billionaire Pavel Sehnal has announced that he will run for the post of mayor of Prague in municipal elections later this year, Novinky.cz reported on Thursday. Mr. Sehnal is chairman of the Civic Democratic Alliance, a grouping founded in 2016 that has the same name as a right-wing party that was active in the 1990s.

The new Civic Democratic Alliance, which has no presence in Parliament, is running candidates in local elections in several cities and towns. In the capital it has teamed up with some independents to run under the banner Beautiful Prague.