Czech president admitted to intensive care unit one day after general election

washingtonpost.com ^ | 10/10/2021 | Rick Noack and Ladka Bauerova

[BenLurkin]

Czech President Milos Zeman was rushed to the intensive care unit of a military hospital on Sunday...

The unexpected development complicates efforts to form a new government.

In a news conference on Zeman’s hospitalization, hospital director Miroslav Zavoral cited “complications accompanying his chronic illness” but did not elaborate on the illness from which the president suffers or whether he was conscious.

Zeman has been reported to suffer from diabetes and neuropathy.

Zeman’s hospitalization adds further uncertainty to the outcome of the election, which left the opposition with a far clearer path than Babis’s party to form a government — but did not fully block the prime minister’s chances of leading a minority government with the support of the president.

[Williams]

I admit this paragraph left me completely baffled:

Zeman’s hospitalization adds further uncertainty to the outcome of the election, which left the opposition with a far clearer path than Babis’s party to form a government — but did not fully block the prime minister’s chances of leading a minority government with the support of the president.”

[Norski]

This is the Washington Post. Possibly this is deliberate.

[Nateman]

William Henry Harrison was the 9th POTUS. On a very cold rainy day he gave a very long speech. He died 30 days later. Being in charge does not guarantee good health.

[dfwgator]

In the evening of 14 March 1939, Adolf Hitler summoned Czechoslovak President Hácha to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Hácha suffered a heart attack induced by Göring’s threat to bomb the capital and by four o’clock he contacted Prague, effectively “signing Czechoslovakia away” to Germany.

[Hieronymus]

It makes sense enough to me—but I retain an American passion for politics while residing in Canada, a parliamentary system that of late has had several runs of minority governments, and have followed enough of other parliamentary systems for this to be conceivable (our governor general is generally a bit player—a president may often take a more active role in things).

If you followed Israel or France closely over the years, it might also give background.

[OneVike]

Zeman’s hospitalization adds further uncertainty to the outcome of the election, which left the opposition with a far clearer path than Babis’s party to form a government — but did not fully block the prime minister’s chances of leading a minority government with the support of the president.
,br /> Strange sentence when you consider that the Communist Party suffered a major defeat in the election. The party is dead finally after some 70 years.

All the WP can do is claim the winner was the loser.