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The first direct presidential election in the Czech Republic will be held on 11–12 January 2013, with a runoff on 25–26 January, if necessary.If no candidate receives a majority of the votes in the first round, a second round runoff election will be held. The incumbent president, Václav Klaus, is term-limited, so precluded from seeking reelection. His term ends on 7 March 2013. As of December 2012, nine individuals secured enough popular signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the office.
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Candidates
In order to be a candidate, an individual needs to gather 50,000 signatures from citizens or the support of 20 Deputies or 10 Senators. The candidates were bound to file their applications with the signatures 66 days before the election. following which the Interior Ministry verified a sampling of the signatures.
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) held a primary elections in July 2012 to choose their candidate, selecting former President of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka over MEP Evžen Tošenovský. SPOZ, TOP 09, and Suverenita have their party leaders running for the post. Jan Švejnar, who ran for the presidency in 2008 against Václav Klaus declined to run in order to support Jan Fischer's candidacy.
Confirmed candidates
| Candidate | Quorum fulfillment | Party | Affiliation prior to the | Occupation | PPM Factum Opinion poll 27 August 2012 | PPM Factum Opinion poll 6–16 Sept 2012 | PPM Factum Opinion Poll 15 Oct 2012 | PPM Factum Opinion Poll 13 Dec 2012 |
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 Jana Bobošíková |
50 810 | Suverenita | Socialist Union of Youth | Journalist, former Member of European Parliament | 5.3% | 3.8% | 4.5% | 4.1% |
 Jiří Dienstbier Jr. |
28 Senators | ČSSD | Dissident (Stuha) |
Lawyer, Senator | 6.5% | 6.9% | 6.5% | 10.6% |
 Jan Fischer |
77 387 | Independent | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1980-1989) |
Statistician, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | 22.0% | 27.7% | 30.1% | 25% |
 Táňa Fischerová |
64 961 | Key movementand Green Party | Dissident (cs:Několik vět) |
Artist, former Member ofChamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4,4% |
 Vladimír Franz |
75 709 | Independent | None | Artist, university professor | N/A | 6.6% | 4.5% | 9.8% |
 Zuzana Roithová |
75 066 | KDU-ČSL | None | Physician, Member of the European Parliament | N/A | 3.4% | 3.6% | 4.4% |
 Karel Schwarzenberg |
41 Deputies | TOP 09 | Émigré | Prince of Schwarzenberg,Minister of Foreign Affairs | 5.2% | 5.9% | 6.6% | 9.2% |
 Přemysl Sobotka |
41 Deputies & 23 Senators | ODS | None |
Physician, former President of the Senate |
4.8% | 5.7% | 4.3% | 6.8% |
 Miloš Zeman |
82 856 | SPOZ | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1968–1970) |
Economist, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic | 20.6% | 22.7% | 21.9% | 25.6% |