Greens choose candidates for European elections

Deputy Environment Minister Jan Dusík has been chosen as the Green Party’s number-one candidate for the upcoming European elections, it was announced on Saturday. Number two on the list of Green candidates is MP Kateřina Jacques. The Greens were the last political party in the Czech Republic to decide upon their candidates for the European elections, they did so at a national council meeting in Prague on Saturday. The Czech Republic will have a total of 22 seats in the new European Parliament, at the moment, it has 24. Party leader Martin Bursík has said that he would consider the election of three Green candidates to the European Parliament a ‘massive success’.