NGO to make public results of mock elections in schools

The NGO people in Need which organized mock elections in 135 schools around the country has said it will make the results public on Friday. The NGO was criticized for the project by left-wing parties who argued that mock elections politicized the classroom. Many schools dropped out under pressure, but more than 20,000 students took part anyway. The NGO originally promised not to make the vote public until after the real elections, but faced with criticism that he feared the outcome, the leader of the Social Democrats Jiri Paroubek urged the NGO to make the results public right away. The results from a number of schools that broke the agreement and published them separately, suggest that students generally supported right-wing parties.