Civic Democrats set up team to negotiate support for Vaclav Klaus in presidential election

The leadership of the ruling coalition Civic Democratic Party has set up a special team which will be responsible for negotiating support among lawmakers for the party's presidential candidate Vaclav Klaus in next year's election. The team's members are party chairman and prime minister Mirek Topolanek, deputy chairman and Prague mayor Pavel Bem and heads of the Civic Democrat parliamentary parties in the lower and upper houses of parliament, Petr Tluchor and Tomas Julinek. Current incumbent Vaclav Klaus is the only official candidate so far.