Former Škoda Auto boss Vratislav Kulhánek to run for president

Vratislav Kulhánek, former Škoda Auto boss, has officially announced his decision to run in the 2018 presidential elections. Kulhánek, who is 73, will run as a candidate of the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA). He now needs to collect the 50,000 signatures to officially register as a candidate. Among the runners for the presidential post are the current head of state Miloš Zeman, lyricist Michal Horáček, and former head of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jiří Drahoš. Vratislav Kulhánek is currently a member of the executive committee of the International Chamber of Commerce and serves on the scientific committee of the Faculty of Economics in Prague.