Poll: most Czechs want Topolánek for next prime minister

The man most Czechs would like to see as their next prime minister is head of the Civic Democrats, Mirek Topolánek, suggests a poll conducted by the Median Agency and published on Monday. Nearly 20 percent of respondents said that they wanted Mirek Topolánek to return to the post of prime minister, which he handed over to Jan Fischer in May after the toppling of his cabinet. Leader of the Social Democrats Jiří Paroubek came second in Monday’s poll. Almost two-fifths of respondents said they had no opinion on the issue. Head of the Communist Party, Vojtěch Filip, gained 7.1 percent of respondents’ support, while fourth was the head of new party TOP 09, the former foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg.