President Pavel signals little desire to run for second term

President Petr Pavel has indicated he will not run for a second term as head of state, the news site Novinky.cz reported. At a public debate in the Plzeň Region on Tuesday evening he said that one five-year term, if one carried it out to the full, would suffice.

Mr. Pavel said that one pre-election campaign had been more than enough and he did not have much appetite to undergo another. The 62-year-old said that he had come across a comment that, at international level, high politics had become a “geriatric park”, adding that room should be made for young blood.