CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL ASKED CENTER-LEFT LEADER VLADIMIR SPIDLA ...

World | June 17, 2002, Monday // 00:00

Czech President Vaclav Havel asked center-left leader Vladimir Spidla Monday to form a new government, a move which would bolster the small ex-Communist country's drive toward European Union membership. Spidla's ruling Social Democrats, strongly pro-EU, won hard-fought weekend elections, with results from the two-day poll giving his center-left party just over 30 percent of the vote. Havel met briefly with Spidla for the second time in two days before asking the 51-year-old historian to form a ruling alliance with the two-party centrist Coalition, which also strongly favors EU membership.

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