>Incumbent Milos Zeman held a strong lead over pro-EU academic Jiri Drahos in the Czech presidential election on Saturday in which voters were judging Zeman’s tough stance against immigration and courtship of closer ties with Russia and China.
>With 82.94 percent of voting districts reporting, Zeman led with 53.33 percent, to 46.66 percent for Drahos.
>Zeman has benefited from rising Czech hostility to immigration, especially from Muslim countries, although the country received just 116 asylum applications between January and November last year.
>The country has a Muslim minority of just several thousand but warnings of security risks and loss of identity feature strongly in public debate.
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Congratulations to all Czech people.