Former Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer expresses interest in post of to Civic Democrat leader but not prime minister

Former Interior Minister and member of the Civic Democrats Party Ivan Langer said in an interview with the Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny on Friday that he is considering to run for the post of Civic Democrats leader, but wasn’t interested in becoming the party’s candidate for prime minister. Some members of the party have suggested a new, two-fold model of party leadership. The post of party leader, under the new model, would not entail running for the post of prime minister. Mr. Langer argued that when Mírek Topolánek was prime minister, he was too busy with the executive and with the Czech EU presidency to find time for his own party and suggested this new model could help prevent such problems in the future.