Preliminary results show Peter Pavel leading in second round of Czech presidential election
At 14:00 local time on January 28, the two-day second round of voting for the 2023 Czech presidential election ended, and vote counting is currently underway.
According to the statistical results of 53.6% of the votes by the Czech Statistics Office, Peter Pavel, who was born in the military, won 55.18% of the votes. Another candidate, the chairman of the “Discontent Citizens’ Movement” party and former Prime Minister Andrei Babis, received 44.81% of the votes.
In this election, nearly 15,000 polling stations were set up across the Czech Republic, with regarding 8.25 million registered voters. The current turnout rate is regarding 69%.
The term of the Czech president is 5 years, directly elected by the national voters, and can be re-elected for one term. The current President Zeman will step down in March this year. (Headquarters reporter Xu Ming)
