Jan Švejnar makes public his presidential campaign budget

Presidential candidate Jan Švejnar has made his campaign budget public on Monday. This comes in light of comments made by Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, who questioned the funding of Mr Švejnar’s campaign. Speaking in a televised debate on Sunday, Mr Topolánek said that the campaign could be linked to corruption, suggesting there was a connection between Mr Švejnar’s seat on the supervisory board of ČSOB bank and his campaign’s funding. He also suggested that Mr Švejnar must have spent much more on his campaign than the officially declared half a million crowns. Jan Švejnar, who is financing his own campaign, said the costs have so far amounted to 750 thousand crowns.