Czech president Zeman in hospital a day after election

PRAGUE – Czech President Milos Zeman was rushed to the infirmary connected Sunday, a time aft the parliamentary predetermination astatine a clip erstwhile helium has a cardinal relation successful establishing a caller government.

Prague’s subject infirmary confirmed Zeman was transported determination from the statesmanlike chateau successful Lany, adjacent Prague. Zeman's doctor, who recommended the hospitalization, is expected to springiness details of his information aboriginal Sunday.

It’s a instrumentality to the infirmary for the president aft lone a fewer weeks.

Zeman was antecedently admitted connected Sept. 14 for what his bureau described aboriginal arsenic a planned examination. It said CT scans, sonography checks and humor tests carried retired by doctors didn’t uncover immoderate problems oregon illness that would endanger his life.

The bureau said the president was lone dehydrated and somewhat exhausted.

He spent 4 days successful the aforesaid infirmary successful 2019 for akin reasons.

Zeman, 77, is simply a dense smoker with a brushed spot for a portion who has suffered from diabetes and neuropathy linked to it. He has occupation walking and has been utilizing a wheelchair.

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The Czech presidency is simply a mostly ceremonial station but the president has the close to take the country’s caller premier minister.

Earlier Sunday, Zeman met successful Lany with his adjacent ally, Prime Minister Andrej Babis. Babis made nary remark erstwhile helium was leaving the chateau.

On Saturday, the centrist ANO question led by Babis, a populist billionaire, narrowly mislaid the Czech Republic’s parliamentary predetermination successful a astonishment improvement that could mean the extremity of the euroskeptic leader’s reign.

Together, a liberal-conservative three-party coalition, captured 27.8% of the vote, beating Babis’ ANO (Yes), which won 27.1%. In a 2nd stroke to the populists, different center-left wide conjugation received 15.6% of the ballot to decorativeness third.

The winning conjugation won 71 seats portion its spouse captured 37 seats to person a comfy bulk of 108 seats successful the 200-seat little location of Parliament.

Babis won 72 seats, six little than successful the 2017 election.

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Further weakening the country’s populists, the anti-migrant and anti-Muslim unit successful the Czech Republic, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which wants the state to permission the EU, finished 4th with 9.6% support, oregon 20 seats, little than the 22 seats it won successful 2017.

The coalitions instantly announced they sing a memorandum astir their volition to regularisation together.

But Zeman indicated helium would fist name the person of the strongest party, not the coalition, to effort to signifier the government.

In his lone comment, helium congratulated to predetermination victor and each elected lawmakers and wished them well.

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