Daily: Zeman considering return to politics

The Czech daily Právo has written that former prime minister Milos Zeman is considering a return to politics. Mr Zeman headed a minority Social Democrat government for four years from 1998 until 2002. In his interview for Saturday’s Právo, he said that he would consider founding a new leftist party after the upcoming early elections – if the Social Democrats and their right-wing rivals the Civic Democrats agreed on a grand coalition. Another motivating factor would be a deepening of the current economic crisis. Mr Zeman has been a vocal critic of current Social Democrat leader Jiří Paroubek.