"Yes, I am ready to join [the contest] and seek the presidential post in the case of direct elections," Fischer, now the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) vice-president, says in an interview MfD published today.
He says he wants to base his candidacy on 50,000 signatures of voters, which is a condition for candidates who are not members of any political party.
At the same time, however, he did not rule out that some parliamentary or extra-parliamentary party may "adopt" him as its candidate.
Fischer would not actively claim his adherence to any party. He only ruled out allying with the Communists (KSCM), a junior opposition party.
Already before, Fischer repeatedly spoke about his ambition to return to Czech politics.
His presidential candidacy could only be thwarted if the planned introduction of direct presidential elections were rejected by the Senate, the upper house of parliament.
The senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), who command a majority of votes in the Senate, have asserted that they will support the relevant bill in the upper house.
The Chamber of Deputies, dominated by the government parties, passed the bill on direct presidential elections in December.
The new method is to replace the present system of president being elected by the two houses of parliament.
Fischer admits that he may fail in presidential elections. He told MfD that he must discuss his candidacy with his employer.
"I must solve it in order not to close all paths for me, but also in order to be able here when the election campaign will be underway," he said.
Fischer, 61, was Czech Statistical Office (CSU) chairman in 2003-2009. In spring 2009 he became head of the Czech interim cabinet of unaffiliated experts that replaced Mirek Topolanek´s centre-right cabinet collapsing halfway the then Czech EU presidency.
He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC) in 1980-1989.
Author: CTKwww.ctk.cz
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