Close to half of Czechs happy with Fischer as PM

Forty-eight percent of Czechs consider Jan Fischer an appropriate choice for prime minister and believe he will cope well with the challenges ahead, according to a poll conducted by the Factum Invenio agency. A third of respondents said they did not think he was equipped to take over, especially in the middle of the country’s EU presidency. At 58, Jan Fischer he is the country’s oldest-ever prime minister. Some people have reservations to the fact that he is essentially a technocrat, others criticize the fact that he spent ten years in the communist party.