Who among nine individuals secured enough popular signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the Czech presidential election, 2013 and serves as a Member of Parliament for Prague and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies?
Czech presidential election, 2013 The first direct presidential election in the Czech Republic was held on 11–12 January 2013. No candidate received a majority of the votes in the first round, so a second round runoff election was held on 25–26 January. Nine individuals secured enough popular signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the office. Miloš Zeman (SPOZ) and Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09) qualified for the second round of the election.
Petr Fiala Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964) is a Czech politician, political scientist and university professor who has been Leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Moravian Region since 26 October 2013. From 2012 to 2013 Fiala was Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Nečas and Rector of Masaryk University in Brno.