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Drive-in polling station for corona sufferers in the Czech Republic.
Photo: Krumphanzl Michal / dpa
For people suffering from corona, the presidential election in the Czech Republic has already started well in advance.
So-called drive-in polling stations opened in all administrative districts today.
There, people who are in domestic isolation due to corona disease can cast their votes from the car.
According to media reports, however, interest in this possibility remained negligible.
The regular ballot takes place on Friday and Saturday.
Then around 8.3 million citizens entitled to vote will be called upon to determine a successor to President Milos Zeman.
If, as expected, none of the applicants achieve an absolute majority, a runoff election on January 27th and 28th will be necessary.
According to a poll by the opinion research agency Ipsos, the populist ex-prime minister and billionaire Andrej Babis would get 28.6 percent of the vote in the first round, closely followed by ex-general Petr Pavel with 27.8 percent and economics professor Danuse Nerudova with 24 .6 percent.
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