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January 13, 2013, Sunday
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HE'S tattooed from head to toe, a warrior-like mix of blue, green and red. He's also running in a surprising third place ahead of this week's Czech presidential elections.
Vladimir Franz, an opera composer and painter, seems the most unlikely of candidates for a prestigious post previously held by beloved playwright-dissident Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, a professor credited with plotting the economic transition from communism.
But he's not short of admirers in a country where voters are tired of politicians they say are corrupt and failing to deliver on years of promises.
Franz has no political experience but has generated much goodwill.
Vladimir Franz, an opera composer and painter, seems the most unlikely of candidates for a prestigious post previously held by beloved playwright-dissident Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, a professor credited with plotting the economic transition from communism.
But he's not short of admirers in a country where voters are tired of politicians they say are corrupt and failing to deliver on years of promises.
Franz has no political experience but has generated much goodwill.
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