Second day of voting for the second round of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic. The replacement for the current head of state, the Social Democrat Milos Zeman, whose second and last five-year term ends in March, will emerge from the polls.
Czechs already started voting this Friday, with a high turnout of up to 50%. Some 8.4 million voters are called to the polls.
Former general Petr Pavel, 61, is the favourite, with 57% in the polls. His rival is the former populist prime minister and billionaire Andrej Babis, who has just been acquitted in an EU-funded corruption trial.
The Ukraine war has been a central element of the campaign, with Pavel advocating maintaining Czech support for kyiv in the face of Russian invasion, while Babis calls for a position of neutrality.
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