Four dismissed presidential candidates to issue appeal

Karel Diviš, Karel Janeček, Tomáš Březina and Pavel Zítko, all men who intend to run for the office of President of Czechia but were deemed by the Ministry of Interior not to have fulfilled the requirements have announced that they will appeal the decision to the Supreme Administrative Court. It is the standard procedure in such a situation.

Each candidate was required to have fulfilled one of three conditions. Namely to hand in verifiable signatures of either 10 senators, 20 members of the Chamber of Deputies, or 50,000 signatures from ordinary citizens supporting their candidacy.

Karel Diviš lacked just 116 signatures to pass the threshold and says that he has a sufficient number that he chose not to hand in to cover this difference. Meanwhile, Karel Janeček handed in over 73,000 signatures, but only 48,091 were verified by the ministry. Mr Březina missed the threshold by more than 4,000 verified signatures but told Czech Television that he will appeal. The tv station reported on Saturday that an appeal will also be made by Pavel Zítko.