Senator Sobotka races ahead in primaries

Civic Democrat Senator Premysl Sobotka has an edge over his party rival Evzen Tosenovsky in the presidential primaries. The senator has just beaten his rival hands down in the South Bohemia and Vysocina regions where he received 221 votes to Tosenovsky’s 96 and 188 against 119 respectively. The party’s hot candidate for the post chair of the lower house Miroslava Nemcova pulled out of the race unexpectedly just ahead of the primaries.