Social Democrats consider three presidential candidates

The leader of the opposition Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, says his party is considering three potential candidates ahead of next year's presidential elections. He says former anti-communist dissident and first post-communist foreign minister, Jiri Dienstbier, is among the three. However, Mr Paroubek would not disclose the two other names. He says his party will not nominate its own candidate but will wait for the centre-right parties to field their candidates first.