Nearly one in two Czechs wants early elections

Nearly one in every two Czechs would like elections to take place as soon as possible following Tuesday’s vote of no-confidence in the government, a poll conducted for the daily Mladá fronta Dnes by the Median agency has found. Some 45.1 percent of respondents called for early elections while 13.3 percent said they would prefer a caretaker government until the end of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency in July. The opposition Social Democrats, who instigated the confidence vote, have said that they are not against the idea of such a caretaker government.