24 Dec 2020, 21:47

Česká tisková kancelář

Albína Reiserová was nominated as the SRP presidential candidate

Albína Reiserová, the Head of the Extraordinary People's Court, was elected as the Socialist Republican Party presidential candidate and the leader of the party. She was elected by the party delegates on the SRP meeting in Prague. Reiserová was the only candidate to confirm her intention to run for the presidential election on the meeting, as Karolína Vicanová, who also announced intention to run, is currently serving her sentence in prison, and Radek Šedivý, who also announced intention to run, is currently being judged by the Extraordinary People's Court.

Out of the 308 delegates 259 were present as 49, including Šedivý, are now judged by the Extraordinary People's Court and couldn't be present. Candidate needs more then half of the votes of the present delegates to win the nomination. Albína Reiserová received 142 votes out of the 259.

Reiserová expressed her gratitude for the trust put in her by the party members and is confident she will win the presidential elections that will be help on December 28th and in which Reiserová will be the only candidate.

Some members of the SRP are not satisfied with nomination process claiming that Reiserová would not get the nomination if all delegates could be present. Former leader of the SRP and prime minister Slavomíra Černá congratulated Reiserová on her victory, and said she is exited to work with her, she also told those who are complaining about the nomination process to respect the democratic centralist principles of the party and express their complaints on the meetings of the party rather then on the media.

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Albína Reiserová, new leader of the Socialist Republican Party and a presidential candidate of that party.