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11/10/2017
No more than nine candidates of 20 who registered to run in the presidential election this week will be eligible, the Interior Ministry's Klára Pěknicová confirmed on Friday. According to the official, 11 candidates did not fulfill the necessary legal requirements, either failing to submit enough signatures from the public or from lawmakers or filed after the Tuesday deadline.
A total of eight would-be candidates submitted no signatures at all.
Those running in the election on January 13th, 2018, range between the ages of 41 and 74.
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11/10/2017
Archaeologists say they have found mass graves from the height of the Middle Ages in the Czech Republic which are probably unique in Europe.
The around 30 mass graves, containing around 1500 human remains mostly from the 14th and 15 century, have been discovered at the historic town of Kutna Hora. Many of those who were buried hurriedly died from the plague or from famine. In some graves the bodies are five layers thick, in the largest grave 26 layers thick.
Archaeologists believe the wide cross section of the population buried can give a good picture of living conditions and how they evolved over time.
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11/10/2017
Czech president Miloš Zeman has said he is seeking damages of 5 million crowns and an apology from the Brno politician who suggested that the head of state is suffering from cancer.
Zeman said that the damages his office will seek from Svatopluk Bartík could flow into his electoral fund or could be contributed to charity.
He added that the 5 million crown figure was inspired by the damages sought in the past by former president Václav Havel.
Bartík wrote on his Facebook page at the stat of the week that Zeman, who is seeking re-election as president at the start of 2018, was suffering cancer and had only months to live. Zeman’s doctors have also denied the claim he is suffering from cancer.
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11/09/2017
The Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday demanded a recount of preferential votes cast in the Central Bohemia region for the right of centre Civic Democratic Party (ODS) following doubts whether they had been counted properly in 915 districts.
The outcome could affect the election results in the region and the number of seats won by ODS. Talks have been called for November 19, a day before the new lower house of parliament is set to convene for the first time.
The Civic Democrats won four seats in the region, its best performance outside of the capital city, Prague.
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11/09/2017
In football, the Czech team beat Iceland 2:1 in its first appearance in a mini tournament in Qatar.
The Czech goals were scored by Tomáš Souček in the first half with the second by substitute and fellow Slavia Pragu player Jan Sýkora before Iceland pulled one back.
The Czechs face Qatar on Saturday. Czech manager Karel Jarolím said former World Cup competitor Iceland was a quality team and said his team put in a good performance which could be built on.
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11/09/2017
Dominant Czech electricity producer and nuclear power plant operator ČEZ said Thursday that a small leak had been found in a measuring pipe in the non-radioactive part of the Dukovany-4 reactor.
The repairs will take several days, the company added. The rector was powered down late Tuesday with no electricity being supplied to the network several hours later.
CEZ has insisted that radioactive water is not involved. All ČEZ’s other reactors at Dukovany and Temelín are functioning normally.
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11/09/2017
A ban on keeping domestic pigs has been ordered by the state veterinary service in a bid to prevent the spread of the highly infectious African swine fever.
The ban applies to a high risk area of the Zlín region where the battle to contain the infection spreading from the wild boar population has been raging for the past four months. In addition, the state office has tightened its rules for the transport of pigs across the region.
The tightened rules have been ordered because of the risk of the disease spreading as wild boars usually migrate in the late autumn.
The veterinary office said that in spite of a cull on wild boar in the affected area, 15 new cases of the fever have been found in dead animals since the start of November. Once of the chief concerns is that the fever could spread to commercial pig farms in the pork eating country.
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11/09/2017
It’s expected to be cloudy with rain across most of the country with the exception of the eastern regions on Friday. Top daytime temperatures will range between 5 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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11/09/2017
In ice hockey, the Czechs lost in their first outing against Sweden in the Karjala Cup on Wednesday night.
The Czechs went down 3:5 after twice leading in the match and having more shots on target than their opponents. They were made to pay from penalties conceded with three of the Swedish goals coming when they had the advantage of more players on the ice.
The Czechs next face Switzerland and then Russia.
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11/09/2017
Former Social Democrat prime minister and party chairman Jiří Paroubek has suffered another setback in his bid to rejoin the party.
Paroubek’s hopes of rejoining the party were raised last week after Prague leaders recommended he be allowed to do so. But on Wednesday night a meeting of the local party in the Prague 5 region, where he used to be a member, rejected his readmission. The local party’s agreement is a must for his return.
Paroubek left the party in 2011 to found his own party, which failed to make any impact. The party leadership rejected a comeback in June but changed it’s mind after the electoral disaster in recent lower house elections where it lost around two thirds of its support.
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