Miloš Zeman has failed to win the Czech presidential election outright in the first round, he will probably lose in the second round

The results received from 90 per cent of the Czech constituencies in the first round of the Czech direct presidential election, which took place on Friday 12th January and on Saturday 13th January, show that the incumbent Miloš Zeman has received 39,88 per cent of the votes, his main opponent Jiří Drahoš has received more than 26 per cent. Former diplomat Pavel Fischer received more than 10 percent of the votes, Michal Horáček and Marek Hilšer both received around 9 per cent.Zeman would have won the first round outright had he received more than 50 per cent of the votes. This has not happened.The results from the first round of the Czech presidential election indicate that the incumbent candidate Miloš Zeman will probably lose against his main opponent Jiří Drahoš in the second round, because most of the voters who have supported the anti-Zeman candidates in the first round will vote for Drahoš. Jiří Drahoš is a former Head of the Czech Academy of Sciences and is a pro-Western and pro-EU candidate, with right-of-centre leanings.Vote participation in the first round of the 2018 Czech Presidential election was approximately 60 per cent.