Czech President Milos Zeman, an ex-communist known for staunch anti-Muslim, pro-Russian and pro-Chinese views, said Thursday he would run for a second five-year term in a presidential vote scheduled for 2018.
"I have decided to run for president of the Czech Republic again," the 72-year-old veteran leftwinger told his fans at a party held four years after he took office as the EU member's first-ever directly elected president.