PRAGUE - The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Mr Vaclav Klaus, scraped home in general elections, but former communists may have denied his centre right coalition a parliamentary majority, according to preliminary results yesterday.
Mr Klaus's Civic Democratic Party (ODS) emerged with 29.62 per cent of the vote only three points ahead of Mr Milos Zeman's former communist Social Democratic Party. Mr Zeman's party quadrupled its 1992 showing and won 60 seats in the new parliament, just seven less than the ODS.
