Miloš Zeman celebrates his 80th birthday in Hluboká. | Video: Antonín Hříbal
Miloš Zeman started his birthday with lunch in the hotel lounge. Guests from Slovakia, led by Prime Minister Robert Fic, came to lunch. Miloš Zeman welcomed him with the words: “Dear friend, how I was looking forward to seeing you.”
Slovak Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kaliňák also arrived with the Prime Minister of Slovakia. Miloš Zeman gave the guests his new book Prezidentský uděl, he added a handwritten signature.
According to their conception of Saturday children in Hluboká, some local residents. The owner of the V Podzámčí restaurant, Iva Holá, prepared a special decoration for today. She displayed posters of Karel Schwarzenberg, Zeman’s former rival in the presidential election, and Václav Havel outside the windows of the veranda or instead of the menu. She attached their quotes.
close info Source: Deník/Edwin Otta zoom_in They had a special decoration in one of the restaurants in Hlubok on Saturday.
“To show that there are supporters of Václav Havel and Karl Schwarzenberg here,” Iva Holá justified her action. She added that she had more posters ready for decoration. Her friends in the bookstore also have similar decorations.
The celebration itself will begin at 5 p.m. with a welcome glass of wine. Invitations to Saturday’s celebration were given to Zeman’s closest friends, as well as prominent figures in domestic and foreign politics. Some foreign guests will fly to Miloš Zeman’s celebration. According to the Flightradar application, for example, a Polish government special plane heading from Warsaw should land at the South Bohemian Airport in Planá near České Budějovice on Saturday in the early evening. The flight back to Poland is scheduled for Saturday around 10 p.m.
“It will be a celebration full of nice surprises, we can expect really interesting and highly respected guests. Everything has been prepared carefully and in detail by friends, Mr. President is already preparing his birthday speech, and the premiere of his new book entitled “President’s Destiny” is also about to take place,” Jiří Ovčáček, a spokesman for the former president, told Deník.
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Hotel Štekl has five suites, thirteen royal and twenty-six castle rooms furnished in the same style as the interior of Hluboká Castle. The atmosphere of the rooms is also completed by replicas of paintings by Dutch masters. Not one of the 44 rooms is the same.
According to media information, for example Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, Polish President Andrzej Duda or Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received an invitation to the private event. Czech politicians invited for the ANO movement are Andrej Babiš, Alena Schillerová, Karel Havlíček or Jaroslav Faltýnek. The popular actress Jiřina Bohdalová was supposed to appear among the guests, but at the beginning of the week she ended up in the hospital due to an infection from food and will be missing among the congratulators.
