The final round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election will be a contest between Miloš Zeman, a former leftwing prime minister, and Karel Schwarzenberg, the aristocratic conservative foreign minister, in a campaign that is likely to focus on the government’s unpopular austerity policies.
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