Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:37:24 +0200Jan Sokol: The man who could be presidenthttps://english.radio.cz/jan-sokol-man-who-could-be-president-8071267© 2026 Radio Prague International Jan Sokol, the presidential candidate of the Czech coalition government, will vie for the presidency with former Czech prime minister Vaclav Klaus in Friday's third attempt to elect a successor to Vaclav Havel. But Mr Sokol is not as well known as his competitor: while Mr Klaus served as prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 1997, Mr Sokol held some less prominent political offices in the 1990s, and spent most of the decade engaging in academic pursuits. So who is Jan Sokol? encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/sokol_jan3.jpg?timestamp=1590256239 Jan Sokol: The man who could be president https://english.radio.cz/jan-sokol-man-who-could-be-president-8071267 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9