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“The reason for [Zeman’s] hospitalization is complications from the illnesses for which he has been receiving treatments,” doctor Miroslav Zavoral said in a brief statement to the press on Sunday, adding he could not yet talk about the prognosis.
Video from outside the presidential chateau in Lány, west of Prague, showed an ambulance leaving the compound with a police escort and limousines.
The 77-year-old Zeman has been suffering from a range of health problems over recent years. On advice of his doctor, he voted in the country’s general election Friday from the presidential retreat, instead of at a school in Prague as was previously scheduled.
Zeman’s admission to hospital comes at a pivotal moment in deciding the Czech Republic’s new leadership. Indeed, one of the president’s main constitutional roles is to choose the next prime minister to form a government.
Zeman was taken to hospital shortly after speaking with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš — a day after a general election where Babiš’s ruling party ANO appeared to have lost its grip on power, and the two opposition coalitions who won a majority said they planned to form the next government together.
Zeman has not said when or whom would be asked to form the next government. But he has previously indicated he would ask the leader of the largest single party — not any coalition.
Complicating matters further, Babiš’s ruling ANO party won the most seats among individual parties — but has no clear path to a majority in the lower house.
Dramatic day at the ballot box
Andrej Babiš’s ANO party was edged out by the narrowest of margins by the two opposition coalitions trying to unseat him, according to the Czech Statistical Office.
The center-right alliance Spolu (Together) won the most votes with 27.79%…
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Source : cnn
