Klaus meets Green Party MPs

President Klaus met with Green Party deputies on Monday, in a bid to drum up support ahead of next week’s presidential elections. Green Party deputies, however, called Mr Klaus’s visit a ‘formality’, as the party has already pledged its allegiance to the incumbent president’s rival, Jan Švejnar. The Greens have said that Mr Klaus is an unacceptable presidential candidate for them in view of his position on climate change. But Green MP Olga Zubová said that the party would receive Mr Klaus out of politeness, and that Green deputies had prepared several questions for the incumbent president. The presidential elections will be held on February 8 and Mr Klaus is widely considered to be the favourite.