Incumbent Milos Zeman won the first round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election on Saturday with 39.80 percent of the vote, results from 90.3 percent of voting districts showed.
PRAGUE (Reuters) — Incumbent Milos Zeman won the first round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election on Saturday with 39.80 percent of the vote, results from 90.3 percent of voting districts showed.
The runner up was Jiri Drahos, a pro-Western academic, with 26.02 percent, well ahead of the remaining seven contenders.
The two highest-scoring candidates will go head-to-head in a run-off planned for Jan. 26-27.
