Czech President Miloš Zeman has been taken to the hospital shortly after speaking with the country's populist prime minister whose leadership hangs in the balance following a tight election
Zeman is being treated at Central Military Hospital in the capital Prague, his doctor Miroslav Zavoral said in a brief statement to the press on Sunday. "The reason for [Zeman's] hospitalization is complications from the illnesses for which he has been receiving treatments," he said, adding he could not yet talk about the diagnosis.Video from outside the presidential chateau in Lány, west of Prague, showed an ambulance leaving the compound with a police escort and limousines.
79% of the ballots, followed by Babiš's ANO party with 27.12%, and the centrist PirStan coalition on 15.62%."We are the change. You are the change," Spolu coalition leader Petr Fiala said Saturday, claiming victory before a cheering crowd.The leader of the PirStan coalition, Ivan Bartoš, said talks with Spolu"on the possibilities of forming a new government" would likely begin on Saturday.
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